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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2006 22:06:33 GMT -5
From Broadwayworld.com:
Scott Rudin to Bring Shanley's 'Doubt' to the Screen
Friday, December 15, 2006; Posted: 12:10 PM - by BWW News Desk
Variety reports that John Patrick Shanley's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Doubt will receive a big screen adaptation.
With a screenplay and direction by Shanley (who won an Oscar for his Moonstruck screenplay), the film will be produced by Scott Rudin for Miramax. Shooting will likely begin in fall of 2007.
No casting has yet been announced for the project, but producers will soon begin the casting process. Shanley stated that there would be considerable filming on location for the movie version of the play, which is set in a Bronx parochial school. While the play only featured four actors, the film's cast will be expanded to include the black student who has reputedly been sexually abused by Father Flynn. Other students will also feature as minor characters.
"Set against the backdrop of a Bronx Catholic school in 1964, the show is the story of a strong-minded woman faced with a difficult decision. Should she voice concerns about one of her male colleagues…even if she’s not entirely certain of the truth?," stated press notes for the show's Broadway run.
Doubt opened on Broadway on March 9th, 2005 and ran through July 2nd, 2006; it had originally played a hit run at Manhattan Theatre Club. With a Tony-winning performances by Cherry Jones and Adriane Lenox, and Tony-nominated work by Brian F. O'Byrne, the show won the 2005 Tony Award for Best Play in addition to the Pulitzer Prize. Doug Hughes won a Tony for directing the play.
The show is currently playing a national tour, starring Jones.
Rudin's previous film producing credits include The Queen, Notes on a Scandal, Closer, I Heart Huckabees, Wonder Boys, Sleepy Hollow, The Truman Show, Clueless, The Addams Family and Pacific Heights.
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Post by bjobsessed on Dec 15, 2006 22:12:35 GMT -5
That would be pretty cool! Wonder if a certain blond would try for Father Flynn?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2006 22:15:08 GMT -5
Well, there's him and O'Byrne, so......
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Post by bjobsessed on Dec 15, 2006 23:23:23 GMT -5
Well, there's him and O'Byrne, so...... I know, but my biased mind votes for one over the other. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2006 23:28:41 GMT -5
Yes, but remember...O'Byrne is wonderful too.
Hey! Maybe Sean Penn will do it? LOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2006 0:17:47 GMT -5
Playbill.com:
John Patrick Shanley's Doubt, the four-character parochial-school drama that won the Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize, will get a motion picture version, Variety reported.
Shanley, an Academy Award winner for his screenplay to "Moonstruck," will write the screenplay and direct "Doubt," for producers Scott Rudin and Miramax.
Filming is expected for fall 2007. The play about a Bronx Catholic school nun who suspects a priest of wrongdoing was a sensation from its 2004 start at Manhattan Theatre Club's Stage I Off-Broadway. Doubt moved to Broadway in 2005, snagged the Tony Award for Best Play (as well as two performance awards and one for direction) and played 525 performances before closing in July 2006.
Doubt, directed by Doug Hughes, is currently on a national tour featuring its Tony-winning star, Cherry Jones.
Casting for the film has not been announced.
Variety reported that the film cast will be expanded to include others in the Bronx school community, including the young black student who is the center of the play's controversial accusations. The play is set in 1964.
Location shooting in New York City is expected.
The stage roles were created by Cherry Jones as Sister Aloysius, Heather Goldenhersh as the young Sister James, Brian O'Byrne as Father Flynn and Adrian Lenox as Mrs. Muller, the boy's mother. Lenox won the Best Featured Actress Tony Award for the part.
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Post by Katryna on Dec 16, 2006 5:22:58 GMT -5
Yes, but remember...O'Byrne is wonderful too. Hey! Maybe Sean Penn will do it? LOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!! Yes - remember this post from EGW back in May? (Sorry - I am cutting and pasting - don't know how to insert a quote here.) Didn't know where to put this.
Page Six of the NY post said Sean Penn was at a "Doubt" performance. Paying close attention to the priest; possibly in preparation for a movie adaptation.
EGW And as far as O'Byrne or Eldard - you know who has my vote. Going in our favor - O'Byrne is currently working again on Broadway. Eldard is.....  |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2006 8:19:08 GMT -5
Ron is probably in the mountains "ommm-ing" - LOL!!!! Now you KNOW I want him to do it, too; PLUS, filmed in New York, eh? Yea, like we wouldn't run into eachother again.....
*sigh* I love where I live!!!!
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Post by maggiethecat on Dec 16, 2006 10:43:48 GMT -5
Oh, wouldn't it be loverly?  Brace yourselves. My guess is this thing will be cast with whoever's "hot" at the moment. Jake Gylenhaal (how do you spell his name?) or somebody from The Hunk of the Month Club for Father Flynn, Cameron Diaz for Sister Whatshername, and we can only hope somebody good like Meryl Streep or Emma Thompson is cast as Sister Aloysius, 'cuz you know Eileen Atkins or Cherry Jones won't get the part. Sigh. |
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Post by inuvik on Dec 16, 2006 10:48:06 GMT -5
Oh, wouldn't it be loverly? Brace yourselves. My guess is this thing will be cast with whoever's "hot" at the moment. Jake Gylenhaal (how do you spell his name?) or somebody from The Hunk of the Month Club for Father Flynn, Cameron Diaz for Sister Whatshername, and we can only hope somebody good like Meryl Streep or Emma Thompson is cast as Sister Aloysius, 'cuz you know Eileen Atkins or Cherry Jones won't get the part. Sigh. Hooray! Those of us who didn't see the play will finally get to see the story! (like me!) And Maggie, you never know. Sometimes those in the play get cast in the movie. Matthew Broderick and what's his face from The Producers spring to mind. Let's keep hope alive! |
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Post by Eyphur on Dec 16, 2006 14:03:12 GMT -5
Inuvik: Nathan Lane is the what's his face from The Producers.
I'd love to see Doubt as a movie. I read the play, but I didn't get to see it. It would be great to see it as a movie and even better if it featured our favorite blond dude.
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Post by hoosier on Dec 16, 2006 17:23:33 GMT -5
I'd love to see Doubt as a movie. I read the play, but I didn't get to see it. It would be great to see it as a movie and even better if it featured our favorite blond dude. I have also read the play but never seen it. And I heartedly agree with your choice of lead actor! |
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Post by rducasey on Dec 16, 2006 17:40:14 GMT -5
I'd love to see Doubt as a movie. I read the play, but I didn't get to see it. It would be great to see it as a movie and even better if it featured our favorite blond dude. I have also read the play but never seen it. And I heartedly agree with your choice of lead actor! And check this out, the website for the touring company. I can't even imagine someone else playing Father Flynn. www.doubtthetour.com/photos.phpLooks like they are using the same robes. I thought I read somewhere on that site too that Adriane Lenox is in the cast now, even though she was not in it when it started. There is one review that has her name in it, which would mean two of the four cast members were from the original Broadway cast. However pictures from the play show someone else in that role. MODIFIED TO ADD: Here is where it says that Adriane Lenox is in it, but under Cast it does not say that she plays the role of the mother of the student. “COMPELLING. POWERFUL…
FLIES STRAIGHT AND TRUE TO ITS TARGET.
The bull’s-eye it scores is the one thing never in doubt. The Tony®-winning Cherry Jones is magnificent. Chris McGarry is a worthy opponent. Adriane Lenox reprises her Tony®-winning role.”
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2006 23:27:27 GMT -5
Oh, wouldn't it be loverly? Brace yourselves. My guess is this thing will be cast with whoever's "hot" at the moment. Jake Gylenhaal (how do you spell his name?) or somebody from The Hunk of the Month Club for Father Flynn, Cameron Diaz for Sister Whatshername, and we can only hope somebody good like Meryl Streep or Emma Thompson is cast as Sister Aloysius, 'cuz you know Eileen Atkins or Cherry Jones won't get the part. Sigh. Hooray! Those of us who didn't see the play will finally get to see the story! (like me!) And Maggie, you never know. Sometimes those in the play get cast in the movie. Matthew Broderick and what's his face from The Producers spring to mind. Let's keep hope alive! What's is face??? You mean, Nathan Lane? LOL!!!  |
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