Everyone's just hoping Earth's still here when Richard Linklater's Merrily We Roll Along wraps in 20 years
Aux Features Merrily We Roll Along
With today’s technology, digital aging has the potential to look pretty damn real, if at times somewhat uncanny. That’s not good enough, though, for Richard Linklater, who, still buzzing from the 12-years-in-the-making Boyhood, just signed on to direct a film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along that will film over a span of 20 years. This news was met with plenty of excitement, but also a touch of anxiety, what with our planet being more or less on the precipice of a climate catastrophe. Even Blumhouse, the co-producers on this project, cracked a joke about the audacious timeline on Twitter, writing, “The most ambitious thing about this tremendous project we are undertaking with Richard Linklater is that we boldly assume there will be a planet in 20 years.”
It’s all a bit meta for sure and Twitter is having a field day with it, since we’ll all probably be too busy drowning or choking on polluted air to watch it by 2039.
If all this talk of impending world doom is bumming you out, distract yourself with the realization that Merrily We Roll Along is also the play attached star Beanie Feldstein performs in Lady Bird. Neat!
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Tell me more about these ten to twelve people doing a different variation on a point in a pathologically fruitless attempt to appear witty to strangers.
“Tell me more about these ten to twelve people doing a different variation on a point in a pathologically fruitless attempt to appear witty to strangers.”
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Hey hey hey, these aren’t supposed to cut that close to the bone.
But how else will I hear about the hyperbolic bullshit that random people say on Twitter?Because I sure as shit ain’t going on Twitter to find out for myself.
I’m on a personal crusade to end the “Person Does X; Twitter Responds” genre of writing. It’s not going all that well.
Fantastic username/comment synergy, A+ work.
Hello pot!
Hello cattle.
“Tell me more about these ten to twelve people doing a different variation on a point in a pathologically fruitless attempt to appear witty to strangers,” he said, doing a different variation on a point in a pathologically fruitless attempt to appear witty so strangers.
Yes, how odd that a filmmaker who has spent his life examining the difficulty and importance of trying to live in the moment would begin a project that may not be completed, caring more about some kind of “journey” as opposed to its “destination.”
Just give me the orgasm now. I’ve got dinner reservations at PF Changs.
Hot take: the journey of Boyhood is some garbage bullshit.
Please post another dozen or so tweets making the same joke due to some misguided thirst for digital validation.
“The song’s called ‘The Hills of Tomorrow,’ not ‘The Hills of 20 Years From Now,’ Ricky! Amirite?!”
this is what people get for saying Boyhood was goodyou thought you were reassuring him his time wasn’t wasted, but all he heard was encouragement to waste even more.
The thing about this that most fascinates me is how the production costs will be kept in Blumhouse and the co-financers’ books.
He’s 59. There may not be a Richard Linklater in 20 years.
Me: God dammit, I’d like to get a decent Sondheim film adaptation in my lifetime.*A finger curls on the monkey’s paw*
People are going to be so disappointed that they waited 20 years for an adaptation of one of Sondheim’s most mediocre shows.
Who forgot to put “fucking” in the headline this time? I hope you fired them.
Everyone’s just hoping Earth’s still here when Richard Linklater’s Ron Howard Voice Over: “It wouldn’t be.”