Deep Inside Hollywood: "Rent" is due for Diggs and Rapp
by Romeo San Vicente
If you've been feeling a little nostalgic for the '90s lately -- and who hasn't, really? -- then your retro yearning is about to be satisfied.
After a few false starts, the film version of that decade's hit Broadway musical, "Rent," will finally be going before the cameras. "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" director Chris Columbus has taken the reins, and the movie is in the casting stage.
The coolest development of all, however, is that the original cast members have been approached to take on the roles they created when the show was in its off-Broadway days. Taye Diggs ("Kevin Hill," "Chicago") and out gay actor Anthony Rapp are in talks to reprise their characters, as are fellow cast members Idina Menzel ("Wicked"), Jesse L. Martin and Adam Pascal.
No word on production schedules yet, so be ready to wait a little longer than 525,600 minutes for it to arrive at a theater near you.
If you've been feeling a little nostalgic for the '90s lately -- and who hasn't, really? -- then your retro yearning is about to be satisfied.
After a few false starts, the film version of that decade's hit Broadway musical, "Rent," will finally be going before the cameras. "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" director Chris Columbus has taken the reins, and the movie is in the casting stage.
The coolest development of all, however, is that the original cast members have been approached to take on the roles they created when the show was in its off-Broadway days. Taye Diggs ("Kevin Hill," "Chicago") and out gay actor Anthony Rapp are in talks to reprise their characters, as are fellow cast members Idina Menzel ("Wicked"), Jesse L. Martin and Adam Pascal.
No word on production schedules yet, so be ready to wait a little longer than 525,600 minutes for it to arrive at a theater near you.