Musicals are really in vogue at the Fall Film Festivals this year. At Venice the upcoming Joker: Folie a Deux will have stars Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga singing and dancing to the standards.
At Telluride Emilia Perez has the bug, as does the country-tinged The Easy Kind. Plus there is the Robbie Williams creation, Better Man from The Greatest Showman director Michael Gracey; and Pharrell Williams’ LEGO biopic Piece By Piece that are keeping us coming out of the theatre humming the tunes.
And now, world premiering today at Telluride is The End, perhaps the most unlikely storyline for a musical of all (well at least until Joker starts warbling “That’s Entertainment”).
It is set after the world has ended due to a catalclysmic environmental disaster and the only people left on earth are a very wealthy family -partially responsible for it – living in a plush underground bunker.
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