Rob Marshall in Talks to Direct GUYS AND DOLLS Remake for Sony's TriStar Pictures

Director Rob Marshall is known for his activity connected successful musicals for illustration Chicago, Mary Poppins Returns, Into nan Woods, and The Little Mermaid. Now he has his sights group connected a large surface remake of nan classical 1995 movie philharmonic Guys and Dolls, which has besides been a favourite of theater-goers complete nan decades.

Marshall is successful talks, and if nan woody goes through, he and John DeLuca will constitute nan book pinch John Requa & Glenn Ficarra.

John Goldwyn, Marc Toberoff and Marc Platt will nutrient alongside Marshall and DeLuca, while TriStar president Nicole Brown and Shary Shirazi will oversee nan task for nan studio.

Sony purchased remake authorities successful 2019 for nan original Damon Runyon short stories astir gamblers and gangsters, arsenic good arsenic nan authorities to nan Broadway musical. The workplace besides acquired remake authorities to nan erstwhile 1955 movie adjustment from nan Samuel Goldwyn company.

That type of Guys and Dolls starred Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, and Vivian Blaine, and was directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who besides wrote nan screenplay.

Guys and Dolls opened connected Broadway successful 1950, wherever it ran for 1,200 performances complete 3 years. It earned 5 Tony Awards, including nan prize for champion musical, and has been revived respective times since, including a 1992 type pinch Nathan Lane and Faith Prince.

20th Century Fox antecedently held nan authorities to nan film, pinch Channing Tatum and Joseph Gordon-Levitt eyed to star, but nan task yet became a casualty of nan Fox-Disney merger.

via: Variety