If you’re obsessed with La La Land already, here are XX movie musicals coming (Picture: Rex/Disney)

La La Land looks bound for glory at this year’s Academy Awards after breaking records at the 2017 Golden Globe Award, taking home seven gongs, and picking up 11 nominations at the 2017 BAFTAs.

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Starring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, the film has found critical and box office success but there’s good news for fans of the musical genre, because there’s a whole host of all-singing and all-dancing musicals coming our way.

From Broadway adaptations to original stories, here’s a look at 12 other movie musicals to whet your appetite..


1) The Greatest Showman On The Earth:

Hugh Jackman hosting the Oscars (Picture: Getty Images)

Starring Hugh Jackman, Zendaya, and Zac Efron, The Greatest Showman On The Earth will be directed by Michael Gracey, the man behind the visual effectts on Ned Kelly and The Magician.



The biopic will star Jackman as s P.T. Barnum, the showman of the three-ring circus who loved to hoax a gullible public, and will focus on his infatuation with the Swedish Nightingale, an opera singer Jenny Lind.

The Greatest Showman On The Earth looks set for an early 2018 UK release.

2) A Star Is Born

Lady Gaga (Picture: Getty Images)

Warner Bros are the behind the fourth remake of the classic tale of an aspiring actress helped along the way by an ageing actor, with Janet Gaynor, Judy Garland, and Barbra Streisand all playing version of Esther Hoffman.

In 2017, Lady Gaga will take on the iconic role, starring alongside Bradley Cooper, and according to Deadline, their chemistry was palpable.

‘The world is in for a treat as these great artists craft an all new vision of A Star is Born,’ Warner Bros president of Creative Development and WW Production Greg Silverman said.

3) Wicked:

We hope you’re happy now, because the Wicked film adaptation is finally coming – although not for nearly another three years.

The story of Oz’s Wicked Witch Of The West when she was just a misunderstood Elphaba, Wicked is being adapted for the big screen by Academy Award winner Stephen Schwartz, who is also the show’s composer-lyricist.

He admitted in 2016 that he will add at least four new songs to the film adaptation – three of which are newly written and one of which is a song cut from the Broadway production – but as we wait to Defy Gravity with Elphaba and Glinda, we’ve still got the stage show in London to get us through.

4) West Side Story:

Something’s coming. Could it be a new film adaptation of West Side Story?

Well, yes, because in June 2016 it was confirmed that Jurassic Park director Steven Spielberg was working on a film of one the greatest musical tragedies of all time.

He told the Hollywood Reporter that Angels in America playwright Tony Kushner is working on the script of the 1957 musical with lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and loosely based on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet which follows a forbidden love between two members of opposing gangs.

5) Matilda:

Tim Minchin with his Matildas (Picture: REX/Shutterstock)

We all loved (and still adore) the 1990s version of Roald Dahl’s classic tale about a genius girl who develops extraordinary powers.



Will a new film ever measure up?

Perhaps with Tim Minchin’s sharp and witty lyrics and score, it could.

In 2013, the comedian who wrote the music and lyrics for the hit musical of the book confirmed it will be hitting our cinemas – but not until at least 2019 due to contract obligations meaning no screen version can released within six years of appearing on Broadway.

6) Beauty and the Beast:

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Yes, we know the Disney film came first with many musical numbers.

Tale As Old As Time to be re-recorded for Beauty And The Beast by Ariana Grande and John Legend

But there was also a Broadway musical after the original Beauty and the Beast animated film with new songs that look set to be included in this live action remake starring Emma Watson. So for that reason, we’re including it.

And we’ve only got two months left to wait, as Beauty And The Beast will be released on March 17 2017.

7) Mary Poppins Returns:

London’s most famous nanny is back in a long-awaited sequel to the original film and musical.

Emily Blunt will replace Julie Andrews in this 2018 Disney feature film that will follow a grown-up Jane and Michael Banks in Depression-era London and the latter’s grown up children.

Man of the moment Lin-Manuel has confirmed that he will play a street lamplighter and that the creative team have ‘sort of taken some of the adventures’ from PL Travers’ other Mary stories for this film.

No word yet on if Julie will be back for a cameo – but everyone’s favourite cockney chimney sweep Bert, played by Dick Van Dyke, will be back.

8) Beautiful: The Carole King Musical:

Where Carole King leads, we follow so we can’t wait for a big screen adaptation of the Tony award winning musical on the life of the songwriter.


Tom Hanks will reportedly produce a big screen adaptation of the musical which tells the inspiring true story of Carole’s remarkable rise to stardom, from her start as part of a young songwriting duo with husband Gerry Goffin to her years as one of the most successful singers in the world.

9) In The Heights:

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s debit Broadway musical In The Heights has a director – Jon Chu – and a production company behind it – The Weinstein Company – but Lin-Manuel, a Tony, Grammy and Emmy award winner, is still unsure when audiences may see In The Heights on the big screen.

‘The Weinsteins’ track record is really good, and Jon Chu in particular, like, the sequences he’s made for some of those Step Up films were so extraordinary,’ Lin-Manuel told Deadline in November.

‘I’m really excited to see how he stages some of these musical numbers in In The Heights. I think it’s a really inspired choice.’

10) Sunset Boulevard:

Glenn Close in Sunset Boulevard in 2016 (Picture: Getty Images)

Glenn Close first played washed-up silent screen star Norma Desmond in musical Sunset Boulevard on Broadway and she obviously loved it so much she came back in 2016 for a stint in the West End.

So will the big screen be next?

Christopher Hampton the show’s lyrcist told Evening Standard in April that they are ‘looking down the line to make a movie of it later’ but they are still looking for a director who could take the story in the right direction.

11) Little Shop Of Horrors:

At the end of December it was confirmed that Warner Bros was moving forward with a new film adaptaion of Little Shop of Horrors, with Greg Berlanti set to direct and Matthew Robinson writing the script.


The original off-Broadway rock horror-musical play was adapted in 1986 and follows Seymour Krelborn, a nerdy florist who grows a carnivorous plant and has to then kill to keep it fed.

12) Aladdin:

Guy Ritchie is reportedly in negotiations to direct this live action remake of Disney’s 1992 adventure movie which is thought to be ‘an ambitious and non-traditional take’ on the story we all know and love.

Big Fish’s John August has written the script while The Lego Movie‘s Dan Lin will act as producer.

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