Rock of Ages Moving to the Big Screen

If you couldn’t get enough of the 1980s rock musical spofof “Rock of Ages,” you’re really going to love this news - the musical is being brought to film, and director and choreographer of the Tony Award winning musical “Hairspray” Adam Shankman will be directing. According to Variety, Shankman will direct and choreograph the screen version for New Line Cinema, which is apparently beginning filming next summer (2010) in Los Angeles, set for a release in 2011 via Warner Brothers. ”I’m thinking big, and absolutely am going to attempt to cast with movie stars. Now that musicals are working again, actors are much more open to it,” Shankman told Variety.

“In 1987 on the Sunset Strip,” Rock of AgesBroadway production notes state, “a small town girl met a big city rocker and in L.A.’s most famous rock club, they fell in love to the greatest songs of the ’80s. . . . [The musical is] an arena-rock love story told through the mind-blowing, face-melting hits of Journey, Bon Jovi, Styx, Reo Speedwagon, Pat Benatar, Foreigner, Twisted Sister, Poison, Asia, Whitesnake and many more.” The book writer Chris D’Arienzo also wrote the story’s screenplay and will be produced by ‘Rock of Ages’ Broadway producers Carl Levin, Matthew Weaver and Scott Prisand, along with Tobey Maguire and Jennifer Gibgot.
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Posted in General on October 20, 2009

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