Boy Swallows Universe set for the stage as Moulin Rouge! producer Global Creatures announces deal with Trent Dalton
“I was thinking, this is a career emphasis, Pav he remembers Pavlovic. “I said to Trent, ‘I have to stop talking. I just have to tell you how much I love you Children swallowed the universe‘. It was a very organic conversation about what I thought I was contributing to a theatral adaptation. “
When Harper Collins contacted to say that stage rights are now present, he adds: “We went in – and here we are here.”
There is a lot of work to do before BSU He hits the stage – actually so much work, he doesn’t even have a timeline yet.
Dalton will be involved, but he will often leave his visions to others to bring his story. “I will be Amigo and I will read every line, but I don’t want to be a writer, or he says. “Very close [to me] And I think I would just slow down things. “
And if the team gets the story in the initial aspects that Dalton did not foresee, will it be good with it?
“Absolutely,” he says. “If it is a direction that excites me and feels loyal to that child [his fictional alter-ego, Eli Bell] 12 years old, even if he’s not more exciting, I’m open to everything. “
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Something Pavlovic is certain, it Children swallowed the universe It won’t be musical. The other wants to build something that will go to the biggest stages of the world. “My interest in this is humanity and I believe that the universality of the story.”
Global Creatures succeeded in exporting the original Australian IP to the largest stages of the world. Moulin Rouge!Adapted from Baz Luhrmann’s film, he won 10 Tony Prize in Broadway and a olivier in London. According to Pavlovic allegations, 11 production box office collected $ 1.7 billion box office and counting.
In the last decade, the Australian Theater has started to have a serious international impact – Author Suzie Miller (Prima Facie), Director Kip Williams (Dorian Gray’s picture), producer Michael Cassell (a power center that expands to both Broadway and West End at home). And Pavlovic believes that there may be much more with the right movements.
“We are starting internationally recognized because we have such a talent pool and we can improve this level of business, or he says.
However, it is expensive to develop for the world scene – King KongIt represented a journey of $ 33 million to the first opening night of global creatures developed in Sydney, released in Melbourne and ultimately taken to Broadway (and millions more to make a retool to the release of New York).
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Therefore, Pavlovic gave a campaign to a campaign for 40 percent of offset to develop new works for the theater, as filmmakers can use.
“This once a generation is a moment, or he says. “It would be a tragedy for us to kidnap him, because everything is in place and it can help us throw faster where we need and we really need. I think we are ready.”
