#PLEASE remake newsies

[guardian-angle22]

Ok I'm going with the trend of starting a discussion based on your tags lol but totally derailing the current discussion at the same time so:

Who would Ronen play in a Newsies remake? Are we talking movie or stage show? I have opinions but I wanna hear yours (and others lol)

[in response to the tags and comments on this post]

Okay, okay, okay... I like this discussion!

So I have seen the broadway but only once back when it first came out. I do remember enjoying it but honestly don't remember too much about which characters they changed up, who sings what, etc. I enjoy seeing the occasional stage show but I'm definitely not a theater girlie. SO! I will obviously have to pick movie remake just based on what I know... NOW that we've set the base here...

On the one hand, I could see Ronen playing the shit out of David. Now, David isn't the Christian Bale lead role, but he's got that naive but endearingly sincere thing going for him and I think Ronen would do great at that. Also, has some great musical moments and the friendship between him and the lead would be wonderful.

However... my real answer... the one I would truly die to see.... Ronen playing Spot Conlon. I don't know about you, but I was a sucker for the cane, the suspenders, and the holier than thou Brooklyn attitude. The down side to this choice is not many songs for him to sing in, but they could change that up specifically for Ronen in this hypothetical remake that won't ever happen cause he's a grown adult not a child/teen.

Please! Share your opinions! Tell me if mine are so completely wrong! 🤣(Also tell me if I am the only one who though Spot was the best character in that movie? was that a me thing?)

[rubeslovesthesmiths]

I AM GOING TO ANSWER ALL OF THEM MUSICAL THEATRE IS ONE OF MY SPECIAL INTERESTS

9) Jeremy Jordan. He's my idol, and has inspired me so much.

11) West Side Story! I LOVE IT SO MUCH and I don't see enough love for it

12) I'm gonna say Mean Girls. I love show, infact im doing it this summer, but I think it's a little overrated.

13) I wish they would remake newsies, with the broadway songs

14 Beetlejuice!!!

15 West Side Story

16 Doing the wiz at a 95% white school and hearing people's blackcents (it's bad during the rehearsal)

17 GATSBYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

19 Jack Kelly or Tony

20 Pulitzer, Billy Flynn,

22 ooooooooh this a hard one I love The Pitiful Children, or the Ballad of Sara Berry. I also enjoy Oceans cut song from RTC

25 specific casts of shows I love! Like newsies with the different Jack's or uksies!!!!

26 Heather's!

27 Phantom and wicked! Like please get off broadway other people need times to shine!!!!!!!

28 DEH AND SIX! THEY WERE MY FIRST MUSICALS AND I CANNOT STAND THEM NOW

29 Legally Blonde!!!

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[newtsies]

thinking (again) about disneyland & how they should have some sort of newsies attraction

[newsie-softie]

i haven’t really posted an Original Thought(tm) in a while, so here’s this hot take:

this scene, when Specs is saying, “that’s an unusual name for these parts,” but in the Don Knotts voice

[bowling-alleycarpet]

newsies dream cast, part 1

if newsies is in a constant cycle of new productions, it’s about time we get a perfect cast! this is who I’d want as the characters in a remake in the round in 2022

Jordan Fisher as Mush Meyers

livesies was racist and cast a white guy as mush, who was an actual real mixed racial historical figure who was more than likely forced to live on the streets because it was illegal for him to even exist. therefore he gets first on this list just to make up for that even though it could never be enough to make up for that great disservice. perhaps he gets a new solo too because frankly he has always deserved one. I think Jordan would suit the role well with his astounding voice and positive attitude similar to that of a puppy, just as Mush always has.

Max Casella as Joseph Pulitzer AND Mr Wiesel

Max also deserves so much better than what disney gave him. He continued to do disney movies and their broadway shows for twenty years and is an accredited stage actor who helped earn them some 13 Ed’s Tony’s for the stage play of the lion king which is still Disney theatricals biggest gross to this day. He actively asked to be in newsies on broadway and they wouldn’t give him a job! He loves the film so much that he was the only actor from it to show up to the broadway red carpet as well. He deserves every role. And!! Most importantly Pulitzer will finally be portrayed by a real Jewish man!

I also just think it would be very funny to see him as the man he was heckling with as Racetrack, very funny 10/10

David Moscow as Mayer Jacobs

This is the clearest choice on the list and needs no explanation. David is still an activist in workers rights (among other things like sustainable food) to this day! (I did consider putting bernie. sanders on this list for shits and giggles but would never consider him for an actual production.)

Giuseppe Bausillo as Racetrack Higgins

This is the only member of the stage cast I would consider hiring back. He fits the role very well and Bob and Noni’s “Italian beanpole” description. He did excellent before and frankly deserves more credit for it.

Ann-Margret as Medda Larkin

She is still out here thriving today!

Brendan Fraser as Bryan Denton

You can 100% accredit this and the next one to @maggs-is-a-muppet but they’re right and I’m saying it louder for the people in the back.

Josh Sundquist as Crutchy

Please look up his stand up comedy if you’ve not seen it. Very funny man and, importantly, we do not fake disabilities in this house!

On that note, do you of any young visually impaired actors who would be applicable for Kid Blink? I would gladly support them but after quite a bit of searching I’ve only found Johnny Depp, who happens to be blind in his left eye (though I think any visual difficulty would be applicable) but he is much too old for the part. I thought the thirty somethings on broadway were too old but he’s twice their age and i do think that would detract from the plot, sorry Johnny.

Ele Keats as Esther Jacobs

You guys had to know this one was going to be on here.

Matt Bennett as David Jacobs

I’m not saying every Jacobs needs to be a major proponent of bernie but maybe I am. Anyways his album Terminal Cases is iconic.

Auli’i Cravalho as Sarah Jacobs

Auli’i is so talented she got most adults lifelong goal of voicing a disney princess at merely 15. She knows how to make a strong female character also nice and kind.

Christian Bale as Teddy Roosevelt

From his initial hatred of newsies and musical kind to doing three more the next year despite swearing off them, to earning awards for the largest online following from the sheer number of newsies fan sites alone, to becoming possibly the most well known Welsh actor of all time, to singing Santa Fe every time he sees Bill Pullman in the wild, CB has gone on quite the journey of accepting his love for newsies, and it’s time that journey comes full circle. Yes we’re going to spend half the budget paying him for less than two minutes of screen time. Yes, this is very much only in the absence of Robin Williams.

[misplaced-in-generation]

My answers are gonna be about both 92sies and Livesies because I love them both equally with my entire heart and soul.

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28. An Unpopular Opinion

*cracks knuckles* Get ready for a rant lol.

92sies AND Livesies BOTH are good. I honestly despise when people hate on either of them. Having an opinion is one thing as is liking one over the other. That’s valid. But outright shitting on one of them just because you want to hate something? Gtfo please lol. Some of the things have seen make me rage lol. And literally has made me mutter “kids today” like a grumpy old man lmao. Point is—don’t hate on something because you like the other thing more. You look like a twat. Also, you do not get to hate on something that brings other people happiness.

ANYWAYS sjsksksk

I always say this but—if anyone was going to be a 92sies purist it was me. I have loved 92sies since I was two years old. It has always been a part of my life. It has always been my favourite movie and my favourite thing of life. It has been a constant. I was in the online fandom for Newsies when I was a teenager. Pre-Tumblr or Twitter or whatever. This movie means more to me and I’ll never be able to put into words how much.

Enter Livesies. (Or more accurately, the National Tour that I saw live, twice). I was blown away by the end of the first act. I legit practically bought out the merch stand. It was everything I have ever wanted and more. Yes, there were changes. New characters. Different versions of the songs, etc. But it was absolutely incredible. It was also everything I never knew I wanted out of Newsies. It gave it more of an emotional punch, it rounded out some characters. There was a girl character who was in the thick of it who I felt I could relate to more. (Do not get me started on the Katherine hate, y’all are ridiculous. Like tell me you hate actual strong female characters without telling me). It was a freaking Broadway show. Which by the way, all of the fans wished and wanted so badly for years and we finally got. So please leave with your hate.

So after seeing the show, I was obsessed because hello have you met me? I listened to the soundtrack a lot and fell in love with Jeremy Jordan. I watched slime tutorials. All the things. And then they announced Livesies and I lost my mind. I saw it in the theatres and I cried lol. You don’t even want to know how many times I’ve watched it by now. It is also my favourite thing of life.

So in conclusion, they are both incredible and deserve love and praise. While I do view them as separate entities, one is an extension of the other. I do not consider Livesies a remake. It’s a stage adaptation of a movie. And again, it’s what we all wanted, for Newsies to live on and get the acclaim it always deserved. It went from a movie that flopped to a cult classic to a Tony award winning Broadway musical. There is no better success story than that.

They are both incredible, fun, heart-warming, and inspiring. They both own equal parts of my heart. There’s a reason I have a tattoo from each version. I am also Santa Fe trash but that’s another story.

If my room is any indication:

So don’t be a hater and enjoy both for the masterpieces that they are ✌🏼

[brelione]

News

so it has been decided that I will be remaking TBB

im still going to keep the original up but im going to be rewriting it, adding things and writing the last chapter of the updated version.

if you’d like to be tagged in the new version please let me know

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Fanfic end of year asks (I’m giving you a lot because I’m nosy and I know you appreciate that): 1, 3, 15, 19, and 25.

1. favorite fic you wrote this year

Probably the TRP AU as a whole, with you're my only hope as the standout. I love everything about how that AU came together, and it was such a blast to write.

Second choice might be you can't undo the past though, because I just love how it turned out!

3. favorite line/scene you wrote this year

it's hard to pick an actual, for real favorite but a few that stick out for me are this exchange from finger painted skies:

Eliza pats Jack’s forearm. “We know you have a crush on Mr. Jacobs, Daddy.”

Over Jack’s choked splutter, Benji adds, “’Course you think it’d be cool to see him all the time.”

and this line from till the end of the line: "We hone our connection to the Force so that in the moments when we reach blindly into the Universe saying please, someone, help me – someone can reach back. Our connections are what make us people, what keeps us alive.”

15. something you learned this year

Aurabesh.

19. any new fics to start next year

This year I'm actually probably going into the new year with several works in progress, so I'm planning to start by finishing those. After that I'll have:

the seas be ours (sequel to devils and black sheep)

borrow the moonlight (the jatherine one I've mentioned a few times)

a different kind of prophecy (the pjo take on the fate be kind au concept)

25. a fic you read this year you would recommend everyone read

I know you're probably looking for/expecting a Newsies fic here but @kingburu has me ready to write pjo fic again for the first time in like three years so I have to rec her Who Do You Love series which is Hades!Jason and Jupiter!Nico (with Roman Percy and Thalia and Greek Hazel) that starts with a retelling of HoO through that lens and goes on from there. The second fic is ongoing and my death at its hands is also ongoing.

(For Newsies fics, I'm sure that everyone following me is already these, but this year I've been obsessed w/ @thefactsofthematter's too many colors and, always, @benafee's remaking the world)

fanfic end of year asks!

[benafee]

Director's commentary for Remaking the World, but specifically for Chapters 6-9 when it overlapped canon please :) I'm curious about how you approached that span of time!

“Remaking the world” is an extension of the stage show exactly as it is—I like the challenge of responding to the original and I also just really did not have the energy to re-write newsies. Instead, I chose four scenes that fit between key moments in the show that I could use to better establish David’s character and connect the original story to the backstory and continuation I’ve created.

I have broken them down under the cut because this got truly ridiculous.  

When I planned out the story, I calculated how Mayer’s injury and loss of job would affect the family income. By my math, they would be $5.00 short on their basic expenses by September. However, my math as based on the most basic costs of living (fuel, food, rent) and with the assumption that David and Les would be able to sell out every day and that their mother could get a consistent amount of piecework each week. Remember when I told you the fic was founded on Sad Math? This is the Sad Math. I’ve used this math as angst fuel ever since.

Chapter 6 was how I translated my understanding of their dire situation into the story. Right from the beginning, Esther and David are the only ones still standing in the wreckage of the accident—Mayer is injured, Les is terrified and confused, and Sarah is barely functioning—and they’re both holding on to their composure by a thread. Esther’s been taking the lead so far—she’s the one looking over the math, she’s the one that’s made the plans, she’s the one propelling them forward with vague promises of a return to normality. David is following her instructions. By the end of the scene their roles are reversed. He literally leads her to bed and through the Shema. This is a pivotal moment for David, so much so that he hasn’t really addressed it yet. It also bridges into his first day selling with Les, where he again is taking up the responsibility of protecting his brother and providing for the family. It also helps to establish that David’s initial terseness and standoffishness is due to desperation, fear, and fatigue. The near-miss with the truck is meant to show that David’s view of the world has been irrevocably changed; just like when he sees the girl running past the distribution gate, he sees and understands the risks all around him and feels powerless against them.

Because I expanded on the stress David was facing, Chapter 7 was meant to explain how David becomes the more confident and outgoing version of himself we see in act 2. He gets to see that the newsies have accepted him as one of them not just for Jack’s sake but because of who he is and they get to see him as a kid their own age. They don’t quite understand each other (the whole thing with the laundry attests to that) but they respect each other. I also wanted to highlight just how much of a risk the strike posed to David and his family. I was originally going to have Esther and Mayer yell at David when he returned, but that did not fit. Instead, I had him overhear them arguing to hit home his own conflict with his involvement. It also builds on the previous chapter; he’s forced to recognize that his parents do not have all the answers.  

Everyone writing canon-compliant Newsies fics seems to need to write a post-rally reconciliation and everyone reading canon-compliant Newsies fics seems to want to read a post-rally reconciliation. So Chapter 8 came into the picture. Once again, the Sad Math propelled me. David and Jack’s relationship is obviously essential to this chapter; they are both desperate to find/provide a reason for David to forgive Jack, but part of them (the angry part in David and the self-hating part in Jack) also wants David to keep hating Jack. I didn’t want David to immediately forgive Jack, but I didn’t want him to not forgive him. Instead he says to give him time. Also, I decided to have Jack tell David it was good to have him back—both in the "I'm really glad we're working together again" and "I'm happy you're no longer looking at me with dead eyes and a voice that's a breath away from breaking". I meant for it to connect to David later saying it to Jack. I never liked Jack dismissing him for saying it. By paralleling it here, I meant to imply that David’s said it to Jack because he wanted to reach out, right back but doing so shows that he didn’t understand what Jack was saying in the first place. Jack sloughs it off because David’s using his words against him and David thinks it’s funny how annoyed he seems to be to hear David say it back. He continues to pull this trick throughout “Remaking the world” and Jack does it right back, often by mimicking David’s accent and pronunciation. It’s sort of a running joke and sort of a way for them to connect with one another.

I decided to include the post-strike celebration because the last three chapters were really damn heavy—both in terms of plot and mood. I like the idea of having rest stops in stories. A celebration of their success, marking out a turning point in David’s life, felt like a good one. This was also an opportunity to show David fully reconciling with Jack, connecting with Katherine and the other newsies, and continuing to settle into his new role as VP (and realizing he is VP). . At the same time, David still sees himself as separate. He spends most of the chapter narrating, aka observing, the others rather than directly interacting with them. I wanted to end off the canon-aligned chapters showing that he has grown but still has a way to go until he feels secure in his friendships and with himself.

I swear this is the condensed version. If you want to know more about anything from these chapter specifically, drop me an ask and I’d be happy to go more into it.

[locke-writes]

Hey I Write For That!

Or, here’s a list of the things I write for that you may have forgotten about since my fandoms list is so long.

Here Is The Full Fandoms List

Requests are open for everything on the fandoms list but do not feel obligated to request anything. This is literally just a reminder that I write for smaller fandoms.

If you do want to request something: Here Is What I Write & How You Can Properly Request It

and if there’s something you’d like to know if I would/can write for, please let me know!

Airheads (1994)

Altered Carbon (S1)

Anastasia the Musical

Angel Has Fallen (including Olympus Has Fallen and London Has Fallen)

Baby Driver

HBO Barry

Being Human (US)

Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (all films)

The Breakfast Club

Booksmart

The Chronicles of Narnia (all films and books)

Cheers

Clerks 

Dogma

ER

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Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

The Good Place

The Goldfinch

Halt and Catch Fire

The Hateful Eight

House MD

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It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia

The IT Crowd

IT (2017/2019 specify child or adult versions of characters)

Jumanji (all films)

Knives Out

Little Women (1994 & 2019 - specify the version in your request)

Letterkenny

Maleficent

Maleficent: Mistress of Evil

Marvel

Mad Men

Men In Black (1-3 & International)

Merlin (BBC)

Motherless Brooklyn

Mr Right

New Girl

Newsies (Film and Musical, Specify when Requesting)

The Office

Parks & Recreation

Peter Pan (2003)

Phantom of the Opera (2004)

Pretty In Pink

Priest

The Princess Bride

Prodigal Son

PS I Love You

Pushing Daisies

Repo! The Genetic Opera

Reservoir Dogs

Ripper Street

The Rookie

Scott Pilgrim vs the World

A Series of Unfortunate Events (Netflix)

Sherlock Holmes (RDJ films)

Three Musketeers (1993 & 2011, specify when requesting)

Trainspotting

Trollhunters (Netflix)

Unbreakable Trilogy (Unbreakable, Split, & Glass)

Watchmen (Film Only)

What We Do In The Shadows (film and show)

[tessishavingabitofablog]

Thoughts on the Live Action Aladdin

This movie has now been out for almost a year. 

I have thoughts... 

I recently read an article interviewing Alan Menken about the new movie. Howard Ashman and Alan Menken created the Disney movie musical as we know it. The Little Mermaid! Beauty and the Beast! Aladdin!

Alan Menken went on to write the music for so many movie musicals and musicals in general. Hercules, Galavant, Aladdin, Hunchback, Tangled, Newsies, Little Shop of Horrors! The list goes on and on. He remarks that he would rather see a new musical than a remake of an old one, but the market is yearning for remakes, so he comes back and works on them. 

When asked if he pushed for any of the Broadway songs to be in the remake, he says he did a little. BUT GUY RITCHIE HAD NO SCOPE OF THEM. Guy Ritchie goes to make a new version of an animated movie that has a BROADWAY HIT MUSICAL and he doesn’t even listen to the soundtrack. WHO DOES THAT??

Okay so that’s fine. Is it? NO! Of course not. So they bring in some new people to write a song for Jasmine. It’s good. But THERE ALREADY WAS ONE. 

Howard Ashman and Alan Menken wrote a few songs that were not included in the original animated movie for a few reasons. BUT they went on to be included in the Broadway musical. One of these songs is Jasmine’s “These Palace Walls.” Now don’t get me wrong, “Speechless” is a good song, it’s very modern, very female empowerment etc. “These Palace Walls” is very much about wanting to explore and get out there! They could have included it in the movie! 

The biggest song that should have been included in the new live action remake is “Proud of Your Boy.” This song was favored by Howard Ashman as he was dying of AIDS while they were making the animated movie. When they cut the character of Aladdin’s mother, unfortunately the song had to be cut as well. They also thought the song would be a bit of a downer after “One Jump Ahead.” Menken had a really hard time letting go of the song. When they were putting together the Broadway musical, it came back up for consideration, and they decided that Aladdin should sing it after “One Jump Ahead” and dedicate it to his late mother. 

With so much history behind “Proud of Your Boy,” why would Guy Ritchie not deem it necessary to put in the live action. He clearly had no read on Disney history. This song was not just a part of the musical, but it gives so much depth to the character of Aladdin. It gives him drive. It gives him a reason. Instead of just love. It brings in family, and with so many Disney characters being orphans or having complicated family relationships, this song would have meant so much more to have in the live action movie. 

This movie deserved the 56% it was given on Rotten Tomatoes. It’s engaging I guess, and Jasmine is a stronger character. The Aladdin myth itself is dripping in racism and Orientalism, and the remake has tried to be respectful to the culture as much as it can. Click here for a Vox article all about that. 

If you are going to work on a remake, please do us all a favor and do ALL the research. Not only to avoid cultural appropriation and racism, but to understand the piece’s history. 

Here’s to hoping that Rob Marshall, Lin Manuel Miranda, and Marc Platt do some research for The Little Mermaid remake. Alan Menken, stand up for your work, and with Howard Ashman gone, you’re all he has left. 

[musicals-but]

maura I love you

newsies but they’re all dressed as iconic 80s movie characters

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[santafejackkelly]

If they remade the Newsies movie, I want Christian Bale to be part of it again and I want to be there when they make it.

[thedeadlybookworm]

PSA to my mutuals (and non-mutuals)

To all 622 of you-

I’m not sure how many of you will still be here after December 17. Heck, I don’t even know if I’ll still be here.

That being said, if anyone would like contact info to find me on other sites, please don’t hesitate to ask. I have an instagram, twitter, Ao3, and I plan on remaking a Quotev account.

For my Newsies followers, don’t worry. I plan on continuing Blue Gems on my Ao3.

I have made many friends on this site over the past five years, and I actually have mutuals from tumblr on my instagram.

If anyone would like my other social medias, just throw me a quick message.

It’s been real, and it’s been fun.

All my love,

Ray

[taramaclaywasaterf]

Stand By Me

The Outsiders

Newsies (a remake about the matchgirls’ strike of 1888 please)

movies that would be better with an all female cast go