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Post by normasturban on Sept 10, 2024 19:27:01 GMT
Surely a large part of the “why now?” aspect of this particular genre of movie adaptation musicals seeing the light of the day is that the creatives involved were of an age when the originals were released. Fans of these movies when they were first released are all in their 30s/early 40s now and in the industry. Heathers is significantly older than the rest of them which is why it was the first of this wave. I’m not sure it’s much deeper than that. I read either in the program notes or an interview with the Heathers (musical) creators that they were expecting an audience demographic of people who remembered the film the first time round but what they actually ended up with is an audience much closer to high school age. I can totally see that. They made it expecting their fellow millennials to be the fans and Inexplicably wound up with teenagers who probably hadn’t even seen the film at that point. |
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Post by singingbird on Sept 11, 2024 8:32:23 GMT
Surely a large part of the “why now?” aspect of this particular genre of movie adaptation musicals seeing the light of the day is that the creatives involved were of an age when the originals were released. Fans of these movies when they were first released are all in their 30s/early 40s now and in the industry. Heathers is significantly older than the rest of them which is why it was the first of this wave. I’m not sure it’s much deeper than that. I read either in the program notes or an interview with the Heathers (musical) creators that they were expecting an audience demographic of people who remembered the film the first time round but what they actually ended up with is an audience much closer to high school age. That's so interesting. I saw it as a fan of the film from the time, and thought the musical was okay but totally missed the film's heart of (delicious) darkness. |
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