Richard Linklater is filming an adaptation of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Merrily We Roll Along over the course of 20 years with Ben Platt, Blake Jenner, and Beanie Feldstein
Hey, old friends. Photo: Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic After spending 12 years of your life making Boyhood, you might think that a director would want to take a break from the whole slow-progress-of-time movie genre, but not Richard Linklater! Instead, he’s decided to go up to a full two decades, and also make it a musical — one of the world’s most infamously intractable musicals, in fact.
The musical — for those unfamiliar with either the history of musical theater or the movie Lady Bird — moves backward in time, following a trio of former best friends who’ve grown cynical and antagonistic toward each other. The story starts in the 1980s and tracks back to their hopeful young selves in 1950s.
“I first saw, and fell in love with Merrily in the ’80s and I can’t think of a better place to spend the next 20 years than in the world of a Sondheim musical. I don’t enter this multi-year experience lightly, but it seems the best, perhaps the only way, to do this story justice on film,” Linklater said in a statement.
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