Coram Boy: The Movie
Coram Boy: The Movie
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#1Coram Boy: The Movie
Posted: 7/11/07 at 5:02pm
In the works, based on Gavin's novel, not the show.
Directed by Alan Parker.
#2re: Coram Boy: The Movie
Posted: 7/11/07 at 5:11pm
I wish I'd gotten to see this. I was just a few days late. 
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#2re: Coram Boy: The Movie
Posted: 7/11/07 at 5:13pm
Really liked the show, must read the book now. It may work better as a movie.
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Updated On: 7/11/07 at 05:13 PM
thenewmoon
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#3re: Coram Boy: The Movie
Posted: 7/11/07 at 5:50pm...starring Shia LeBouef as Alexander Ashbrook and Elijah Kelly as Toby.
#4re: Coram Boy: The Movie
Posted: 7/11/07 at 6:28pm
this was the one show i HAD to see on my trip... alas it was not to be.
i'm EXCITED! I hope it pans out.
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#5re: Coram Boy: The Movie
Posted: 7/11/07 at 7:39pm
Definitely excited for this !!!! You all know how I felt about the show !! Loved it !!! Mominator, the book is excellent as well, and much different than the show) --
#6re: Coram Boy: The Movie
Posted: 7/11/07 at 7:42pmI can see it. The play was definitely cinematic.
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#7re: Coram Boy: The Movie
Posted: 7/11/07 at 11:26pm
sigh...
This really makes me sad all over again that I never got the chance to see it.
heavy blink...longer sigh...
The Overture is part of the show, people. Please shut your pie hole.
BSoBW2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/8/04
#8re: Coram Boy: The Movie
Posted: 7/12/07 at 12:22am
I actually found the play much more dramatic than the book but love both. Though I would love for Jan Maxwell to be in the film with her extended part (Mrs Lynch is a fairly small role in the book).
The whole final scene of the play never happens in the book. That was my favorite part of the play, too.
#9re: Coram Boy: The Movie
Posted: 7/12/07 at 12:27am
You mean the negroid doesn't get adopted?
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Updated On: 7/12/07 at 12:27 AM
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BSoBW2
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#10re: Coram Boy: The Movie
Posted: 7/12/07 at 12:33am
He does...
And the secret passageway is in there. But Mrs Lynch never follows them and forces Otis on the ship.
I don't remember exactly, but think Aaron and Toby both jump ship and Meshak gets shot down into the water.
#11re: Coram Boy: The Movie
Posted: 8/8/07 at 7:46pm
Meshak never gets shot down in the water. In the book, he stays on the boat, goes to America, and eventually makes his way back to England to... basically to stalk Aaron from afar, until he dies.
Loved the play, and enjoyed the book, but didn't really love how they ended it. Meshak's death in the play was far more dramatic, and a lot more interesting, I think. I also didn't like what happens to Thomas in the book either.
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#12re: Coram Boy: The Movie
Posted: 8/9/07 at 3:23amI loved this play, and I agree that its much more dramatic than the book. I thought the book plodded along a bit, but I can see it being a brilliant film if they looked at and considered some of the dramatic points used for the stage version. I miss this play, I really enjoyed it.
And hang on, when did you win the discus?
BSoBW2
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#13re: Coram Boy: The Movie
Posted: 8/9/07 at 9:24am
"Meshak never gets shot down in the water. In the book, he stays on the boat, goes to America, and eventually makes his way back to England to... basically to stalk Aaron from afar, until he dies."
Hmm. Well, I was just waiting and waiting for Mrs Lynch to arrive at the end and when it never happened it through me off...
#14re: Coram Boy: The Movie
Posted: 9/14/08 at 6:40pmIt's been over a year -- any developments?
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bwayfan9
Broadway Star Joined: 9/14/08
#15re: Coram Boy: The Movie
Posted: 9/14/08 at 7:00pmis it still going to have all that choral music. that was so beautiful.
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Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#16re: Coram Boy: The Movie
Posted: 9/14/08 at 7:13pm
We saw it & throughly enjoyed it.
Having said that, I doubt it would work as a movie. What would the audience be ?
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#17re: Coram Boy: The Movie
Posted: 9/14/08 at 7:20pm
People out in the country who have nothing better to do.
There's always an audience for movies.
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Mr Roxy
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#18re: Coram Boy: The Movie
Posted: 9/14/08 at 7:35pm
Not all movies make money. this kind of discounts your arguement.
Time will tell if it even gets made. If so, I doubt it will be a big draw.
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#19re: Coram Boy: The Movie
Posted: 9/14/08 at 8:30pm
sorry, people out in the country who have nothing better to do smoke dope or go to tractor pulls ... or both. they don't go to art house movies based on broadway musicals that were only appreciated by [divided] "east coast elites".
possibly if the movie in question were based on a musical based on a movie they'd seen 10 years earlier, or a rock band they'd listened to 20 years earlier, their smart teenage daughters (and queer teenage sons) would go, but that's not a particularly robust demographic, ROI-wise.
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StageFan2
Broadway Star Joined: 4/8/07
#20re: Coram Boy: The Movie
Posted: 9/14/08 at 10:05pmThanks for the info Yankeefan. I don't go to movies as a rule. But I would make an exception for Coram Boy and Alan Parker. I loved the show and I think the book (which I adore) will translate to screen very well. Coupled with Alan Parker's direction; you just may have a sleeper hit.
#21re: Coram Boy: The Movie
Posted: 9/14/08 at 11:43pm
Two corrections:
1) The original post was created in 2007. I bumped the thread to see if there had been any developments I wasn't aware of.
2) The movie will be based on the original novel and not the play.
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
BobRandomGuyMan
Chorus Member Joined: 5/11/03
#22re: Coram Boy: The Movie
Posted: 9/15/08 at 12:59amEveryone gave this show so much crap, but I REALLY enjoyed it. It was so creative, I want to see Melly Still working in the US again. Does she have anything new in the works??
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#23re: Coram Boy: The Movie
Posted: 9/15/08 at 7:51am
Here ya go CapnHook. This is about all I can locate. According to the site below - it's scheduled for a 2009 release.
http://www.themovieinsider.com/m4290/coram-boy/
Here's another link that might be of interest:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2007/dec/12/alanparker
Updated On: 9/15/08 at 07:51 AM
#24re: Coram Boy: The Movie
Posted: 9/15/08 at 7:53amBobRandomGuyMan, I agree about this show. I thought it was magnificent. I'd love to see Still bring another complex piece of fiction to life on stage again in the U.S.
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
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