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"Producers" Blooming on Screen Again
It'll be movie time for Hitler if Universal Pictures has its way.
The studio has sealed a deal with Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick, the original stars of Broadway's The Producers, to headline a big-screen version of the Mel Brook megahit musical, Daily Variety reports.
According to the trade paper, the actors, who are currently making $100,000 per week as they reprise their roles on stage, will be paid mid-seven figures for the movie version. Lane will again play fading impresario Max Bialystock and Broderick, the accountant Leo Bloom, who come up with a scheme to bilk old ladies out of their money by producing a sure-fire flop. Their plan, of course, fails spectacularly.
Brooks who wrote and directed the original 1968 movie, which starred Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder as Bialystock and Bloom, will produce the new musical version along with Thomas Meehan, who cowrote the Tony-winning stage adaptation. The show's director-choreogropher Susan Stroman will helm the new movie.
Brooks' original flick, which earned him a Best Screenplay Oscar, is more of a straight comedy than a musical. Its one real song-and-dance number is the un-P.C. showstopper, "Springtime for Hitler."
"Hitler" was the lone musical holdover from the movie when Brooks and Meehan adapted the film for Broadway in 2001. Brooks also wrote the show's music. With Lane and Broderick on board, The Producers wowed critics, broke box-office records and won a record 12 Tony Awards, including Best Musical and Best Actor for Lane.
Universal, which released the original film and controlled the remake rights, initially announced plans to do a new Producers film last year, but it wasn't until now that the studio was able to lock up Broderick and Lane, along with Brooks and Stroman.
The studio will have to shoot the project around the actors' busy schedules, which includes their current sold-out return engagement that runs through April 4.
Broderick is slated to appear in three movies next year, including indie feature Marie and Bruce, in which he and Julianne Moore play a sadomasochistic couple having relationship issues. The film debuts this month at the Sundance Film Festival.
Broderick recently wrapped Paramount's remake of The Stepford Wives opposite Nicole Kidman and Christopher Walken. That film is set to open June 11. He's also set to star in Disney's The Last Shot, playing a movie director-screenwriter who accidentally gets involved in a mobster sting operation. That movie, with Alec Baldwin and Calista Flockhart, is scheduled to hit theaters in the fall.
Broderick also did voice work for Disney's straight-to-video animated feature The Lion King 1 1/2, due in stores soon.
After concluding his Producers run, Lane will head uptown to star in Lincoln Center's production of Stephen Sondheim's The Frogs, which the actor is also rewriting. That show, directed by Stroman, starts previews in June and officially premieres on July 15.
By the time Broderick and Lane clear their schedules, production on The Producers movie isn't likely to commence until early next year. Universal is aiming to release the picture in late 2005.
Since Lane and Broderick began their encore run December 30, The Producers grossed a record $1,600,243 for eight performances last week, according to show rep John Barlow.
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