GYPSY Movie Roundup - Everything We Know so Far!

It's been one of the most talked about (and most stalled) musical projects of the past few years. Stage and screen legend Barbra Streisand has been working with Universal Pictures on a new big screen adaptation of the beloved Broadway musical GYPSY since 2011. This would be the third film of GYPSY having first been made in 1962 (starring Rosalind Russell) and then again in 1993 for television (starring Bette Midler).

Do you think the film will ever come to fruition? Catch up on what we know about the project so far!

The Script:

In 2012, it was announced that Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes had been brought on to write an adapted screenplay for the project. Fellowes won the Original Screenplay Academy Award® for Gosford Park and most recently earned the Emmy and Golden Globe for creating and writing the acclaimed miniseries, Downton Abbey. His musical theatre work includes adapting the script for Disney's stage production of Mary Poppins.

Then in 2014, the GYPSY film hired a new screenwriter to adapt the msuical- Richard LaGravenese - who worked with Streisand in 1996 on The Mirror Has Two Faces. He recently told Comingsoon: "Barbra [Streisand] and I rewrote it and it was great working with her," he tells the site, "and I think she's going to be an amazing Rose, so I hope it comes together."

LaGravenese is known for his Oscar-nominated script for 1991's The Fisher King and for his work on HBO's Behind the Candelabra. His big screen adaptation of Jason Robert Brown's The Last Five Years, starring Jeremy Jordan and Anna Kendrick, will hit the big screen later this week. Among his other writing credits are Beautiful Creatures, Water for Elephants, The Bridges of Madison County, A Little Princess and more.

The Star:

Streisand has been attached to play the movie's leading lady, Mama Rose, since the early stages of the project, but after Matthew Warchus turned down the job as director in early 2014, rumors began circulating that Babs herself would also take the helm of the film.

On whether she is too old to play the part, she told EW: "Age is just a number. Some people look old at 45. Some people look younger at my age.... I saw CGI of an actor that made him go from 60 to 30, by the way. What they can do now, technically."

More recently, as part of a Sirius XM Town Hall, the famed singer and actress said of the project: "I see every frame of it...I think it's possibly gonna happen."

The Show:

Gypsy is a musical with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents. Gypsy is loosely based on the 1957 memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee, the famous striptease artist, and focuses on her mother, Rose, whose name has become synonymous with "the ultimate show business mother." It follows the dreams and efforts of Rose to raise two daughters to perform onstage and casts an affectionate eye on the hardships of show business life. The character of Louise is based on Lee, and the character of June is based on Lee's sister, the actress June Havoc.

The musical contains many songs that became popular standards, including "Everything's Coming up Roses", "Together (Wherever We Go)", "Small World", "Some People", "Let Me Entertain You", "All I Need Is the Girl", and "Rose's Turn". It is frequently considered one of the crowning achievements of the mid-20th century's conventional musical theatre art form, often called the "book musical".

GYPSY was last seen on Broadway in a production that was first presented by Encores! from July 9 to 29, 2007 with Patti LuPone playing Rose, and direction by Arthur Laurents. Principal casting included Laura Benanti in the title role of "Gypsy/Louise", with Boyd Gaines as "Herbie", and Leigh Ann Larkin as "Dainty June."