James Lapine Wants to Make SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE Movie; Reveals Plans for FALSETTOS Revival

James Lapine is currently enjoying the success of his big screen adaptation of Into the Woods, for which he wrote the screenplay, and in a recent interview with Deadline, Lapine revealed that he has another musical in mind for his next stage to screen project. When asked what musical he'd like to see as a movie, he responded: "Well, I want to do Sunday in the Park with George, but I don't know in this day and age whether you could get it made. But Irwin Winkler came to us when it was on Broadway and said, "I'd like to do a movie of it. I can do it for this amount of money. You can direct it," and I went, "Yeah." And the studio said no."

On what's up next, he continued: "I'm doing probably a revival of Falsettos. And this summer I'm going to do the Encore! series of a show I did with Bill (William Finn) called A New Brain. It really didn't quite work, and so we're going to put a little work into it. And I'm trying to get this small movie off the ground in the spring. We'll see. It's very small, but I have a nice cast, and so we're trying to move towards that."

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Lapine has won the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical three times, for Into the Woods, Falsettos, and Passion. He has frequently collaborated with Stephen Sondheim and William Finn.

Lapine recently directed the 2012 Broadway revival of Annie. He wrote a stage adaption of the Moss Hart autobiography, Act One, also titled Act One, which premiered on Broadway at the Lincoln Center Beaumont Theater in April 2014. He wrote the screenplay for Disney's film version of Into the Woods (2014), directed by Rob Marshall.

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