![]() ![]() The film premiered earlier this year at Telluride, where notices were on the more positive side of mixed, praising Dinklage’s leading performance while acknowledging the awkward friction of grafting show tunes onto Rostand’s narrative. (The music and lyrics for Schmidt’s stage show were written by the members of the National, who lend their talents again here.) Rather than adapting the play directly, the film works from a 2018 musical penned by Erica Schmidt, who has a screenplay credit on Wright’s latest project and also happens to be Dinklage’s wife. For one, putting Peter Dinklage in the lead role alters the details of plot, if not its mechanics where Cyrano’s oversized schnoz originally made him an undesirable quantity insecure about his pursuit of Roxanne ( Haley Bennett), this time around, Dinklage’s actual achondroplasia convinces him that he can never be with the apple of his eye and that she’d be better off with Christian ( Kelvin Harrison Jr).īut the most noticeable liberty taken has to be the musical numbers, in keeping with the same genre mashup Wright previously explored with the widely-panned Pan. ![]() As the public can see in the first trailer uploaded just this morning, Joe Wright’s new big-screen mounting of the old text stays faithful to its seventeenth-century setting, while making a handful of key changes. ![]()
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