Matthew Bourne & Cameron Mackintosh Are Bringing OLIVER! Back to the Big Screen!

According to the Guardian, OLIVER! is heading back to the big screen! British choreographer Matthew Bourne revealed that a new movie version of the 1960 musical is currently in the works. Bourne told the Guardian: "We're reviving The Car Man - based on Carmen. There's also a film of Oliver! in the pipeline. Cameron Mackintosh is hoping to follow up LES MISERABLES with Oliver! and I've never really worked on a major film so that's exciting."

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Oliver! is a British musical, with music and lyrics by Lionel Bart. The musical is based upon the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. It premiered in the West End in 1960, enjoying a long run, a successful Broadway production in 1963 and further tours and revivals. It was made into a musical film in 1968. Major London revivals played from 1977-80, 1994-98 and again from 2008-11- all of which were produced by Mackintosh.

Bourne OBE is widely hailed as the UK's most popular and successful choreographer and director. In 2012 he celebrated 25 years of creating and directing dance for musicals, opera, theatre, film as well as his own highly successful, award winning companies. Matthew is the creator of the world's longest running ballet production, a five-time Olivier Award winner, and the only British director to have won the Tony Award for both Best Choreographer and Best Director of a Musical. He has been recognised by over 30 international awards, including following Dame Margot Fonteyn as only the second dance recipient of the Hamburg Shakespeare Prize for the Arts and being the first recipient, in the arts category, of The British Inspiration Award. He received a Special Theatre Managers Association Award for services to dance touring and audience development. He was awarded the OBE for Services to Dance in 2001.

Mackintosh is a theatrical producer notable for his association with many commercially successful musicals. At the height of his success in 1990, he was described as being "the most successful, influential and powerful theatrical producer in the world" by the New York Times. He is the producer of shows such as LES MISERABLES, The Phantom of the Opera, Mary Poppins, Oliver!, Miss Saigon and Cats.