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69 Love Songs - The Musical?
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Jen Chung
Published Jun 19, 2003
Modified Mar 6, 2008
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With all the excitement about The Hulk opening tomorrow, Movie City News brought up this old FlakMag interview with Hulk producer, co-writer, and frequent Ang Lee collaborator, James Schamus. The December 2000 interview was about the screenwriting process for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, but at the very end, Schamus mentions he and Lee were talking to Stephen Merritt about turning 69 Love Songs into a musical. How hot would that be? And does anyone know the status of this? Lee has wanted to do a musical for a while, Gothamist thought it perhaps might be a remake of Flower Drum Song.
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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