Matt's next project (Telegraph article)

[templeremus]

From their website: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/theatre-news/10360881/Matt-Smith-swaps-Doctor-Who-for-American-Psycho.html
Former Doctor Who star Matt Smith will play Patrick Bateman in a musical version of Brett Easton Ellis's American Psycho

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[a_phoenixdragon]

Ohhh, he was in a theatre version of The History Boys? Just saw the film recently myself and enjoyed it very much!

Aiming for being a bad guy, huh? Kinda love that! There is a freedom in playing a villian. Too bad I'll never see this *frowns*. Never saw the original, but it being turned into a musical - might work in an odd way...

[ragdoll]

Yeah, he was in the UK touring company. It's how he knows James Corden. :) I saw the Broadway (NY) production with a lot of amazing people (including James, Russell Tovey, Dominic Cooper, Sacha Diwan, Richard Griffiths, Frances De La Tour, and Stephen Campbell Moore), but no Matt.

[a_phoenixdragon]

Ahhh - a lot of the people who were in the film itself! Wonderful!! Too bad that there was no Matt - but he must have been busy playing the Doctor at the time.

[ragdoll]

Yeah, the majority of the stage cast were in the film (if not all). The story was slightly different between the play and the stage, but they're both really good. I think that was all pre-Doctor, but I can't remember now.

I'm still kicking myself for not seeing Matt and Lindsay Duncan (from "Waters of Mars") in That Face when it was playing. I was over in London, but it sounded so weird and dark that I couldn't convince myself, even though Matt (who was unknown then) was getting rave reviews.

[a_phoenixdragon]

Hmmm...would be. Give it a bit of a shake-up - love it when they do that for stories: film goes one way, play goes another.

Arrghhh! Missed opportunity!