Just because the film is in development doesn't mean it will actually get made.
Kind of ironic that the character she'll be playing was born in 1890 and would have been in her 30s and 40s during the time period covered in the musical. The woman of about 70 she played when she was in her late 20s in Hello, Dolly! was the opposite in ridulousness.
On the other hand, none of the name stars who played Mama Rose were in the right age bracket to play the character thorugh most the show. Ethel Merman was 51 in 1959; Rosalind Russell was 55 in 1962; Angela Lansbury was 48 in 1973; Tybe Daly was 43 in 1989; Bette Midler was 48 in 1993; Bernadette Peters was 55 in 2003; Patti LuPone was 59 in 2008.
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Barbra is like 70 and will be way too old to play a mother to two little girls in the first half....and will still be too old to play the mother of two twenty-somethings in the second half. I wish she'd check her ego at the door and give the role to someone a tad younger like, say, Catherine Zeta-Jones or Michelle Pfieffer or something and just release her version of "Rose's Turn" on iTunes.
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LOS ANGELES, March 13 (TheWrap.com) - Barbra Streisand's movie remake of "Gypsy" is back on, with Julian Fellowes, the Academy Award-winning writer of "Gosford Park" and Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning writer of "Downton Abbey" doing the adaptation for Universal, the studio said Tuesday.
Streisand is producing with Joel Silver.
Steisand will play the overbearing stage mother Mama Rose. No director has been announced.
It will be her first musical since "Yentl" in 1983 and her first starring role since "The Mirror Has Two Faces" in 1996. Streisand, who won the best actress Oscar for the 1968 "Funny Girl," most recently played Roz Fokker in 2010's "Little Fokkers."
She has been trying to get "Gypsy" back onto the big screen for more than a decade, and met with Stephen Sondheim and the late Arthur Laurents, who wrote the Broadway version, to discuss the project.
In 1962, Warner Bros. released a version starring Rosalind Russell, Natalie Wood and Karl Malden.
Streisand is producing with Joel Silver.
Steisand will play the overbearing stage mother Mama Rose. No director has been announced.
It will be her first musical since "Yentl" in 1983 and her first starring role since "The Mirror Has Two Faces" in 1996. Streisand, who won the best actress Oscar for the 1968 "Funny Girl," most recently played Roz Fokker in 2010's "Little Fokkers."
She has been trying to get "Gypsy" back onto the big screen for more than a decade, and met with Stephen Sondheim and the late Arthur Laurents, who wrote the Broadway version, to discuss the project.
In 1962, Warner Bros. released a version starring Rosalind Russell, Natalie Wood and Karl Malden.