Richard Linklater—director of Boyhood, Dazed and Confused, the Before Sunrise series, and many more—has announced plans to direct a film adaptation of the Stephen Sondheim and George Firth musical Merrily We Roll Along. In the same vein as Boyhood, which was filmed across 12 years, Linklater has revealed plans to work on the musical over the course of 20 years, Variety reports. The film will star Beanie Feldstein, Ben Platt, and Blake Jenner.
“I first saw, and fell in love with Merrily in the ‘80s and I can’t think of a better place to spend the next 20 years than in the world of a Sondheim musical,” Linklater said (via Variety). “I don’t enter this multi-year experience lightly, but it seems the best, perhaps the only way, to do this story justice on film.”
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