So as with everything in this new age of rounding up, the title implies that this is just a little bit more than the source material offers. The adaptation of the stage musical 8 1/2 will become Nine and will still be a musical. Moreso, Dame Judi Dench and Nicole Kidman will be picking up singing duties.
Nicole Kidman and Judi Dench are joining Nine, Rob Marshall’s film adaptation of the 1982 Broadway musical. The Hollywood Reporter says they’ll be joining the already impressive cast of Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz, Marion Cotillard and Sophia Loren.
Bardem will be playing the lead, a film director juggling the demands of several women in his life. The musical is an adaptation of Federico Fellini’s autobiographical 8 1/2.
I enjoyed Nicole Kidman singing in Moulin Rouge, so I have no problem with that, however Judi Dench I have not heard sing. I am not a Judi Denchiophile, so perhaps I missed something, but I didn’t think she has been in a musical. I guess we will have to wait.
