And this is why Disney shouldn't be doing this movie. Everyone, outside of theatre, will think it's 100% Disney, "trying to screw up their movies in some weird crossover/fan fiction"
She totally has not seen the show. Into the Woods has an ending that is so much more then a happy ending. It is a real life ending.
"Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around."
We'll, Disney is upsetting Sondheim purists as well.
“I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.”
``oscar wilde``
Whilst she clearly has missed the point that the musical is a separate commodity and its an adaption of that, she is raising a valid issue that I think the movie will come up against. The fact that its Disney doing it, its hardcore audience will not like the darker side it takes with fairytales. This could be a hard sell, despite the cast, its hardly Les Miserables in terms of being known to the general movie going public
Bravo, bravo, a million bravos to Scarlett Curtis!
In this miserable age of lies, perversity, subterfuge, and subversion, she hits the nail right on the head.
I hope the moviegoing public will be as miffed as she, and stay away in droves.
There's only one comment in which she errs: "The movie is adapted from a brilliant stage musical." Alas, despite her acumen, even she is not immune to propagandized falsehoods.
Thank heavens we still have original cast recordings of Oklahoma!, Kiss Me Kate, My Fair Lady, et al, as a safe haven from all this.