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Big Hollywood » Blog Archive » The Musical: You Feeling Lucky, Punk?
The recent trend of converting hit movies into Broadway musicals (”Shrek,” “Billy Elliott,” etc.) may have reached the point of ridiculous with today’s news that a stage musical of the Clint Eastwood film “Magnum Force” is in the works:
Magnum Force, the 1973 sequel to the Clint Eastwood thriller Dirty Harry, is getting a musical makeover and may even be Broadway bound, according to The Guardian. English singer-songwriter Robyn Hitchcock, an admitted Magnum Force obsessive, will compose the score and intends to produce the show with MTV executive Bill Flanagan.
Hitchcock emerged in the late 1970s with the band the Soft Boys before earning cult status as a solo artist in the 1980s with college-radio staples such as “The Man with the Light Bulb Head,” “Balloon Man” and “Madonna of the Wasps.” In 1998, he made the concert movie Storefront Hitchcock with Academy Award-winning director Jonathan Demme and has since made cameo appearances in two other Demme films, The Manchurian Candidate and Rachel Getting Married.
Hmmm… a British punk rocker with heavy Jonathan Demme influences making a Dirty Harry musical…..? Please, PLEASE don’t end up making this turn into an anti-gun story! KEEP ROSIE O’DONNELL OUT OF THE WORKSHOP!
The recent trend of converting hit movies into Broadway musicals (”Shrek,” “Billy Elliott,” etc.) may have reached the point of ridiculous with today’s news that a stage musical of the Clint Eastwood film “Magnum Force” is in the works:
Magnum Force, the 1973 sequel to the Clint Eastwood thriller Dirty Harry, is getting a musical makeover and may even be Broadway bound, according to The Guardian. English singer-songwriter Robyn Hitchcock, an admitted Magnum Force obsessive, will compose the score and intends to produce the show with MTV executive Bill Flanagan.
Hitchcock emerged in the late 1970s with the band the Soft Boys before earning cult status as a solo artist in the 1980s with college-radio staples such as “The Man with the Light Bulb Head,” “Balloon Man” and “Madonna of the Wasps.” In 1998, he made the concert movie Storefront Hitchcock with Academy Award-winning director Jonathan Demme and has since made cameo appearances in two other Demme films, The Manchurian Candidate and Rachel Getting Married.
Hmmm… a British punk rocker with heavy Jonathan Demme influences making a Dirty Harry musical…..? Please, PLEASE don’t end up making this turn into an anti-gun story! KEEP ROSIE O’DONNELL OUT OF THE WORKSHOP!
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