Broadway Musical JEKYLL AND HYDE is Being Adapted Into Movie

The highly acclaimed and award-winning Broadway musical Jekyll and Hyde is coming to the big screen. After decades on the stage and being toured through 28 countries, the movie is being adapted, written, and produced by Alexander Dinelaris, who has produced some incredible movies that include Hollywoodland, Birdman, and The Revenant. He also co-wrote Birdman, winning the Oscar for best original screenplay. So it sounds like the script is in capable hands.

The Broadway musical was loosely based on Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella “Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde” about Dr. Jekyll, who is battling with his alter ego, Mr. Hyde, in a struggle between good and evil.

Jekyll and Hyde was conceived for the stage by Frank Wildhorn and Steve Cuden, featuring music by Wildhorn, a book by Leslie Bricusse, and lyrics by Wildhorn, Bricusse, and Cuden. The music from this musical is so beautiful. It’s so exciting that we will be able to see it come to life on the big screen. Here’s what the writers of the musical had to say about the adaptation:

“After 30 years of our stage productions playing successfully in almost every major country in the world, we are absolutely thrilled to see our musical version of ‘Jekyll and Hyde’ becoming a major motion picture,” Bricusse and Wildhorn said.

Have you ever seen this production? Are you excited to see this musical in movie form?

via: Variety