Stage Musical Adaptation of New Comedy PRIDE in the Works from Tony Winner Matthew Warchus

According to The Hollywood Reporter, a musical adaptation of the U.K. comedy film PRIDE is currently in the works.

At a London screeening of the film over the weekend, screenwriter Stephen Beresford revealed that the idea of a musical adaptation is currently under discussion with the film's director Matthew Warchus. "[Warchus] came up with nine reasons why we shouldn't do it, but by the end of the journey we had turned them into reasons why we should," Beresford shared with the audience at the ArtHouse Crouch End cinema. Later in the day, the writer told U.K. TV channel London Live that he is also "in talks" with West End producers.

"These days, when films are created, all those things, these possibilities, are taken into account when they are sorting out the rights. We'll see," he teased.

Warchus has previously directed musicals on both the West End and Broadway. In addition to Matilda, he has received Tony nominations for Boeing-Boeing, and The Norman Conquests and won a 2009 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play for God of Carnage.

PRIDE stars Bill Nighy, Imelda Staunton, Dominic West, Paddy Considine, George McKay and Andrew Scott, and follows "a group of gay rights activists who raised money to help families affected by the miners' strike in 1984."

The film had its premiere in the Directors' Fortnight section in Cannes, where it received the Queer Palm award. It hit U.K. box offices this week and landed at No. 3 behind The Boxtrolls and Lucy. It is due to arrive in U.S. theaters on September 26th.

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