Lucas Producing CGI Musical...About Fairies

I don't know if you ever saw Radioland Murders, but you probably shouldn't. It's one of the few non-Skywalker/Indy Jones projects George Lucas has come up with in the last 30 years, and he hasn't had much luck veering off that path. This movie isn't Howard the Duck bad, but it's hard to give it a pass. The point is, Lucas maybe shouldn't take the scenic route in his career, even though his upcoming Red Tails is a great idea. The Bearded One is making a musical now, and I'm not sure he's the man for that job, either. Actually, Heat Vision Blog indicates George is just producing the film, which will be computer animated, if you can believe it. The script, written by David Berenbaum (although it's possible the seed was planted by Lucas), involves fairies. And that's all we know. Kevin Munroe, who directed the unspectacular TMNT a few years back, is signed on to helm this untitled project, which, again, has its share of fairies. We don't know where the music will come from yet, and that will go a long way toward determining exactly what we're dealing with here, but as of now...no thanks. I certainly do feel differently about Red Tails, a story about the Tuskegge Airmen in World War II. Lucas didn't direct that, either, for reasons I don't fully understand, but he did write the script and Heat Vision says he's "putting the finishing touches" on it, which you'd kind of expect, anyway.

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[J.Bradley]

If it had some better names attached to it I'd feel more excited about it. Still though, I don't mind that it's faeries - think Brian Froud and Alan Lee's book from back in the 80's. (Alan Lee went on to designing for "Lord of the Rings") Computer animation would do well for a musical - look at some of the numbers in "Polar Express". "Radioland Murders" was significant in it's time for it's use of digital compositing. They did a big-budget LOOKING movie for very little. At any rate, post-Avatar, Lucas is not the innovator he once was.