JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT will be an Animated Film
It appears someone in the universe has decided to remake Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Yes. The Musical. You know, the one with Donny Osmond and all the songs. Well, apparently Elton John thought it was a good idea so here we are. To make matters better (worse?) it is planned to be an animated film. It was announced at CinemaCon 2017 on Tuesday by Adam Fogelson, chairman of STX's Motion Picture group. The production company known for such great works as The Gift and Secret in Their Eyes. And I'm not even trying to be facetious. They only started in 2015, so their slate of movies is very little.
For those who are completely ignorant of the musical, it is about Joseph, from the bible, who got a colorful coat because he was best boy of his family, and his brothers got in a hissy and sold him to slavers. The slavers slaved him, he worked for a dude who's wife tried to hit on him, got sent to jail, because the dude's wife made up lies about him, like ho's do, and then gets famous by being able to interpret the Pharaoh's dream about farming and agriculture saving the future. And it's a musical with a bunch of musical kind of songs. So now you know.
Look, I'm a guy who likes musicals, and I'm not afraid to admit it. I don't even mind Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.... that much. But if there is one thing I have a hard time coming round on, it's animated bible movies. Especially, animated bible musicals. I just have had too many bad experiences. Maybe it was because my mom made me watch them too much as a child, and I'm sorry, the Bible just isn't as interesting as Animaniacs.
Now, I trust Elton John, because he knows good music, and it is also be worked on by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber who will be writing some new songs for the Musical. It should be known that Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote the music to the original Joseph musical in the late 1960's, as well as Phantom of the Opera. Only time will tell if this will be any good. More news perhaps about this movie as information is released.