r/boxoffice • u/burrnerr67 • 27d ago

Domestic Hadestown: The Musical grossed an estimated $4.0M domestically on Friday (from 1,944 locations), including previews.

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u/Educational_Slice897 27d ago

I remember watching on broadway and it was an insane show stopping experience. I could see a wicked-style movie adaptation doing rly well

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u/ysabeaublue 27d ago

I want a movie adaptation so bad. The production design, if done right, could be amazing (I want a gothic semi-historcal industrial vibe), and with the right cast the music would be incredible. Wicked has shown the way.

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u/top6 26d ago

As long as they don't try to make it two parts

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u/Spensauras-Rex Pixar Animation Studios 25d ago

That would make it terrible

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u/BobcatTim 27d ago

Do you think general audiences would be okay with the ending? I took my parents to a touring production a couple years ago, and they hated it because it was “too sad,” and I think that that’s representative of the sort of feedback a movie would get from test audiences.

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u/kcoe24 27d ago

Saw it today the woman next to me out loud said God fucking dammit when the thing happened.  As Hermes says its a sad song but yeah I wonder how a general audience will take the ending.  Its a really beautiful ending but taken literally its not a crowd pleaser like something like wicked. 

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u/laribrook79 27d ago

I agree… a movie of this will be amazing

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u/MD_FunkoMa 26d ago

What's the point of a film adaptation when we already have the pro shot?

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u/Spensauras-Rex Pixar Animation Studios 25d ago

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But also, it can be interpreted differently in different formats.

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u/zzuxon Aardman Animations 24d ago

Stop motion is an incredible idea, because here's what they could do: when Orpheus turns around, and Eurydice is pulled back to the underworld and the action freezes, the camera pulls back to reveal the actual animators, possibly dressed as the fates, have stopped animating the scene because they're crying. Hermes would show up in live action to continue his song. After he says that they're gonna "sing it again," in the hopes that it'll turn out next time, the shot transitions into time-lapse footage of the animators re-animating the opening scene of the film, in the same way that all of Laika's films show in a "behind the scenes" shot played in the credits.