According to the Daily Mail, Cameron Mackintosh wants to make another film adaptation of Lionel Bart's Oliver!, following the success of Tom Hooper's Les Miserables film adaptation, which has officially surpassed the $400 million mark in worldwide sales, making it the second highest-grossing movie musical of all time. It is rumoured that Cameron wants Stephen Daldry to direct the film.
It is also rumoured that Samantha Barks, who appeared as 'Eponine' in the Les Miserables film and recently finished playing Nancy in the UK tour of Oliver!, is in the spotlight to play Nancy in the possible film adaptation. However, the Daily Mail also reports that Cameron Mackintosh is looking to stage a revival of Oliver! on Broadway with Samantha starring as Nancy before the film adaptation is made!
Based on the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, Oliver! premiered in the West End in 1960, directed by Peter Coe and featuring Ron Moody as Fagin, Georgia Brown as Nancy and Keith Hamshere as Oliver. The musical debuted on Broadway in 1963 at the Imperial Theatre, with Bruce Prochnik as Oliver, Georgia Brown, reprising her West End role as Nancy, and Clive Revill as Fagin. The Broadway production received 10 Tony nominations. It was revived very shortly after in 1965, and then again in London in 1977. The subsequent London revival in 1983-produced by Mackintosh-transferred to Broadway in 1984, starring Patti LuPone alongside Ron Moody. Mackintosh then produced another revival in 1994, directed by Sam Mendes, leading up to the most recent 2009 record breaking revival of Oliver! at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane which starred Jody Prenger as Nancy and Rowan Atkinson as Fagin.
Cameron Mackintosh is a very busy man at the moment as he is also currently planning a re-imagined revival of Les Miserables on Broadway and Miss Saigon in London for 2014.
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