#six pls hire me to direct movie adaptation

[someprincecalledarthur]

my ideas for six the musical the movie

 i think someone said some time ago that a six movie filmed in the style of a documentary would work really well, and I 100% agree with that

so it’s just the six origin story as it happens, but it cuts to the queens being interviewed, performing, and doing more promotional stuff sometimes

bonus points if the songs are spaced out in the story roughly as they are in the musical (big songs like aywd and idnyl have some foreshadowing going on)

it would take place in london, as the first six production took place there (although there might be a mid credits scene of the london queens meeting the other queens similarly to into the spiderverse)

the cast would be made of a mix of different queens from west end and UK tour, or from whatever cast is performing in the UK around the time of the film’s making and release

as six mentions briefly, cathy goes out and finds the queens

similarly to the musical i can’t see them going too far into the logistics of how the queens and the liw came back to life and how they understand modern english (i like the idea of them just automatically talking in modern slang then having no idea why they said that or what it really means except for a general Vibe) BUT there should be some scenes of them exploring modern england and having a bit of a culture shock 

some scenes in this sequence may include anne and kitty finding out that chokers are a thing, the queens researching what happened after their death (bonus points if there’s a historical spoiler alert joke), and the queens finding out about modern music and being intrigued (especially kitty)

some time passes, and they’re trying to earn money to stay afloat in a variety of different ways (jane, aragon and cathy take tours of the tower of london, kitty plays music at cafes and stuff (though refuses to step foot in bars) and anne and anna try to become instagram influencers (with limited success) (they eventually join kitty as musicians)

it’s cathy who has the idea of writing their real story down and releasing it, but aragon and anne have the idea of making it a play. kitty is indirectly responsible for making it a musical, through introducing the queens to their “queenspiration” music and eventually getting them all hooked on an idea for a pop musical

the liw are characters here instead of easter eggs like in the show, but they’re still pretty minor and very secondary to the queens

toby and lucy have stan lee-esque cameos

also, if you look closely at a bunch of scenes, you can see former or current six actresses in the background

in addition the alts/swings are just random actresses in this interpretation (maybe cameos from actual six alts)

the movie follows the queens from their first meeting to their opening week on west end 

it would include their tryout performances before making it onto west end (and they actually wear the student cast and studio cast costumes in the early performances before their final outfits)

maybe a brief scene of their 1st uk tour outfits with the oversized aragon wig (there’s a scene of her attacking it with scissors to make it more manageable), the silver cleves costume, and the notorious bin bag parr sleeves, before a huge reveal of their final costumes on opening night

other fun concepts include:

aragon and anne having great banter

kitty and cathy both learning about stuff together

more character development for jane that isn’t just “mother”

cathy writing her entire first draft of IDNYL at midnight fuelled on coffee (anne joins her halfway through and writes the “grouping us is an inherently comparative act” line, then a few nights later the same thing happens, but everyone is there and they write haus of holbein)

a reference to Heelys 

the making of the six songs (i mean, they can’t have had them that good the first try, right?) (bonus points if the original drafts are the arrangements as seen in the student run and the studio run)

kitty comes home with her bright pink ponytail one day and the queens, not knowing about hair dye yet, have absolutely no idea how or why she did it

the following period of hair exploration is how anna got her hair cut short, and how anne discovered spacebuns

when characters are introduced, an instrumental variation on their song plays in the background (think the acoustic snippet of No Way in the musical before the Anne Boleyn Interlude)

except the lead up to anne’s introduction is literally just the instrumental to the anne boleyn interlude instead of dluh

in addition, the LIW riffs introduce them, aragon and anne’s first interaction has a version of Wearing Yellow To A Funeral, etc

more emotional scenes of the queens coming to terms with their past trauma

and finally, the most important part of all:

the megasix is played during the credits