Kiss of the Spider Girl has a captivating legacy that spans literature, cinema, and the stage. Initially written as a novel by Handbook Puig, it was became a taboo-bursting 1985 movie, which received star William Harm an Oscar. Thought of boundary-pushing in its frank depiction of homosexuality, it was later became a Tony Award-winning musical. Now it’s getting a lavish film musical directed by Invoice Condon. Along with films like Gods and Monsters, Condon additionally directed one of many higher stage-to-screen variations, Dreamgirls, and has collected many accolades with a movie that’s mentioned to have the grit and soul of the 1985 film and the flash and spectacle of the play.
The brand new trailer for Kiss of the Spider Girl has arrived from Lionsgate and goals to whisk you away with its extravagant set items. The movie stars Diego Luna, Tonatiuh and Jennifer Lopez. The official description from the press launch reads, “Dreamgirls and Magnificence and the Beast director Invoice Condon returns to the film musical on this dazzling Technicolor-hued fantasy. Valentín (Diego Luna), a political prisoner, shares a cell with Molina (Tonatiuh), a window dresser convicted of public indecency. The 2 type an unlikely bond as Molina recounts the plot of a Hollywood musical starring his favourite silver display diva, Ingrid Luna (Jennifer Lopez). Primarily based on the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical hit.
Invoice Condon’s visionary new adaptation relies on the acclaimed 1976 novel Kiss of the Spider Girl by Argentinian author Manuel Puig and the Tony Award®-winning Broadway musical of the identical identify by the a number of Tony Award®-winning playwright Terrence McNally (Grasp Class, Ragtime) and composer/lyricist group John Kander and Fred Ebb (Cabaret, Chicago). Written for the display and directed by Invoice Condon, this visually beautiful and emotionally charged adaptation stars Emmy Award® nominee Diego Luna (Andor, Y tu mamá también), Tonatiuh (Carry On, Promised Land), and Emmy®, Grammy® and Golden Globes Award-nominated celebrity Jennifer Lopez (Hustlers, Out of Sight), who additionally serves as an govt producer alongside Diego Luna. Produced by Barry Josephson, p.g.a., Tom Kirdahy, p.g.a., and Greg Yolen, p.g.a.
An Artists Fairness and Mohari Media presentation, Kiss of the Spider Girl is a Josephson Entertainment / Tom Kirdahy / Greg Yolen / Nuyorican manufacturing. Invoice Condon, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Mark Scheinberg, Dani Bernfeld, Kevin Halloran, Michael Joe, Mickey Liddell, Pete Shilaimon, Whitney Williams, Jennifer Lopez, Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, Courtney Baxter, Diego Luna, D. Matt Geller, Pamela Thur, Sam Weisman, Daniel Weisman, and Margaux Weisman function govt producers.“
Kiss of the Spider Girl premiered at Sundance and our Chris Bumbray obtained to see it. He mentioned in his assessment, “While the premise certainly sounds heavy, Condon infused the film with a lot of Hollywood flash and sizzle. However, the songs and musical numbers are confined to the film within the film, making this more realistic as far as big-screen musicals go. It’s precisely the right way to film it, as the power of the story, which reflects grim, real-world events, isn’t diluted. It’ll be interesting to see if a major studio picks up the movie, as it feels fairly commercial, even if, at its soul, it is a desperately sad story that doesn’t feel far removed from events that still happen all over the world forty years after the story is set.”
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