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Silence Is Golden As Michel Hazanavicius’s Oscar-Winning Film ‘The Artist’ Is Developed Into A Stage Show
17.11.2022 - 14:13 / deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: Choreographer and director Drew McOnie (Greatest Days) is developing a stage version of Michel Hazanavicius’s 2011 Oscar-winning film The Artist about a Hollywood silent screen star whose career is upended with the advent of talking pictures.
McOnie told Deadline that he is co-writing the theater adaptation with playwright and screenwriter Lindsey Ferrentino (Amy and the Orphans). He will direct and choreograph the show, something he has wanted to do since first watching the film.
A series of workshops being held in London late next January and early February will determine how the show will progress. It’s hoped that the production will be ready to open late 2023, though McOnie insisted that “we won’t get locked into a trajectory” until he and his collaborators are happy with the show’s developement.
Hazanavicius’s film was an homage, shot in black and white, to Hollywood’s first golden age. Jean Dujardin won a Best Actor Academy Award for his role as fictional a matinee idol, George Valentin, who I unable to accept that cinema has discovered a new way of communicating with its audience. Berenice Bejo starred as Peppy Miller, an aspiring actress whose career is given a generous push by Valentin.
The film won a total of five Oscars including Best Picture and Best Director. It was also garlanded with BAFTA and Golden Globe honors. Hazanavicius said in a statement issued through The McOnie Company that he was “deeply touched that my film might have given other artists the desire to make a show out of it.”
McOnie’s production shop, The McOnie Company, acquired stage rights to The Artist after first meeting with Hazanavicius in Paris. Later McOnie and Georgia Gatti, executive producer at The McOnie Company,
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