Rob Marshall brings "Into the Woods" to the Big Screen

Here's some exciting news about Into the Woods.  A summer production in NYC's Central Park seems like a perfect warm-up act for the film.  The musical has a wonderful cross-generational appeal, and it shows us the dark side of the fairy-tale world even as it preserves the incandescent beauty and irreverent humor of the tales.

Want the lyrics?

 http://www.mit.edu/~nocturne/athena/text…

The way is dark,
The light is dim,
But now there's you, me, her, and him.
The chances look small,
The choices look grim,
But everything you learn there
Will help when you return there.

 http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment…

 

"We are thrilled to be collaborating with Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine on this extraordinary and inspiring work," Marshall and producing partner John DeLuca said in a joint statement.

It's not the first time a Hollywood studio has tried to adapt the musical for the big screen, Broadway.com reported. Columbia Pictures tried developing "Into the Woods" with director Rob Minkoff, but there proved to be no storybook ending for that project.

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