Roadside Points of interest has dropped a trailer for Kiss of the Spider Lady, Invoice Condon‘s adaptation of the Broadway musical that stars Jennifer Lopez, Diego Luna and Tonatiuh. The pic, which had its world premiere on the Sundance Movie Pageant, was picked up quickly after by Roadside, Lionsgate and LD Leisure and is about for a theatrical launch October 10 within the awards-season hall.
The stage musical, which was primarily based on Manuel Puig’s 1976 novel that was was the 1985 film starring Raul Julia and William Harm, is about in military-run 1983 Argentina and facilities on a pair of jail cellmates. Molina (Tonatiuh), a homosexual window dresser jailed for indecency, retains up the spirts of political prisoner Valentin (Luna) by telling tales about his favourite musical actress, Ingrid Luna. The trailer reveals off the stark distinction between the jail and Luna’s Previous Hollywood fantasy world as the 2 males start to fall in love.
Lopez performs Luna, who comes alive in Luis’ tales through the music of John Kander and Fred Ebb from the Broadway present (the e-book was by Terrence McNally). “I had 10 musical numbers (within the film),” Lopez advised Deadline of the manufacturing. “It’s brutal, it’s an indie movie, we didn’t have time that the majority film musicals have.”
Condon, who directed the hit film adaptation Dreamgirls and Magnificence and the Beast and wrote the script for Chicago, wrote and directed Spider Lady, an Artists Fairness manufacturing, and shot it like an MGM musical film of previous: in lengthy, single takes. It was the splashiest title this 12 months in Park Metropolis, and Deadline broke the information of the North American rights deal made be Roadside, Lionsgate and LD.
Final fall, Roadside acquired Gia Coppola’s The Final Showgirl out of the Toronto Movie Pageant and ramped up awards-season buzz for its lead star Pamela Anderson, so there’s a method right here.
Take a look at the trailer above.
