Salman Rushdie open to Broadway musical on Midnight s Children
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Category : ART & LITERATURE
Salman Rushdie open to Broadway musical on Midnight s Children
Mumbai July 1 (IANS) Authour Salman Rushdie whose "Midnight s Children" is being adapted for a Netflix series says the book has had many incarnations and he would be interested in a Broadway musical on it too if someone is keen to make it.
The announcement that Netflix has selected the novel about the amazing aftermath of India s Partition into two countries to make into a series prompted thoughts on the feature film that Rushdie s filmmaker friend Deepa Mehta had made from the novel in 2013.
So why another screen version of "Midnight s Children"?
Rushdie said: " Midnight s Children has had many incarnations. First a novel then a Royal Shakespeare Company s stage play a BBC radio serial and a film. If anyone wants to make it into a Broadway musical I would be interested in that too! A life in one medium one art form does not preclude a new life in another."
Asked about Mehta s thoughts on a new avatar for a book she had so diligently filmed Rushdie said: "I discussed the Netflix project with Deepa Mehta before the announcement and she was excited and 100 per cent supportive."
For many years "Midnight s Children" was considered unfilmable. But Rushdie disagrees.
"Nothing is unfilmable. Good films have been made of Anna Karenina Ulysses The Tin Drum even (Marcel) Proust. It s just a question of finding the way and that s what we tried to do. There s no magic trick. Just hard work."
--IANS skj/rb/
The announcement that Netflix has selected the novel about the amazing aftermath of India s Partition into two countries to make into a series prompted thoughts on the feature film that Rushdie s filmmaker friend Deepa Mehta had made from the novel in 2013.
So why another screen version of "Midnight s Children"?
Rushdie said: " Midnight s Children has had many incarnations. First a novel then a Royal Shakespeare Company s stage play a BBC radio serial and a film. If anyone wants to make it into a Broadway musical I would be interested in that too! A life in one medium one art form does not preclude a new life in another."
Asked about Mehta s thoughts on a new avatar for a book she had so diligently filmed Rushdie said: "I discussed the Netflix project with Deepa Mehta before the announcement and she was excited and 100 per cent supportive."
For many years "Midnight s Children" was considered unfilmable. But Rushdie disagrees.
"Nothing is unfilmable. Good films have been made of Anna Karenina Ulysses The Tin Drum even (Marcel) Proust. It s just a question of finding the way and that s what we tried to do. There s no magic trick. Just hard work."
--IANS skj/rb/
