Twin act: why did this great director refused to stage the film?

Twin act: why did this great director refused to stage the film?



Sister act : a well -deserved success

A young woman, witness to a murder, incorporates a neck to protect herself. This is the tone of Sister actMusical against the background of a cult police survey in the early 90s. Directed by Emile ArdolinoThe project had an important popular success, in particular thanks to the remarkable presence of Whoopi Goldberg in the main role. With a cast also composed of Maggie Smith, Bill Nunn and Harvey Keitel, Sister act relationships more than $ 231 million revenue at the box office. The film even receives two Golden Globes nominations.

Deloris Van Cartier (Whoopi Goldberg) - Sister act
Deloris Van Cartier (Whoopi Goldberg) – Sister Act © Disney

Largely positive feedback that pushed Disney To produce a suite in 1994Still transported by Whoopi Goldberg, but this time made by Bill Duke. Currently, The study even prepares a third opus. A new suite, almost thirty years later Sister Act 2which will see the return of the main actress. On the side of the realization, the project is entrusted to Tim Federle, for A trip that will probably be limited to Disney+.

Pedro Almodóvar almost made the first movie

If it is Emile Ardolino who realizes Sister actfor a while, Disney wanted the Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar He takes care of staging the film. In fact, at that time, Pedro Almodóvar already had several films for its active ingredients Women on the verge of the nerves crisis AND Ties!. However, even if Sister act It seemed to be a great opportunity for his career, Pedro Almodóvar kindly refused the proposal. Years later, the director returned to the reasons for his refusal for the microphone of New Yorker. Almodóvar has advanced practical reasons, but also creative freedoms:

Maybe it’s because I didn’t trust my English practice. Perhaps it is because even if they always told me that I would have the final cut and total artistic freedom, there was always something in me that told me the opposite and therefore that I did not believe it.

Pedro Almodóvar
Pedro Almodóvar © Orange Cinéday

In the end, The production has turned into Emile Ardolino. The latter made a name for himself in 1987 when he staged the emblematic musical: Dirty dance. Two years later, he realized The sky was wrongThen Such fathers, such a girlbefore being involved Sister act. Unfortunately, The director died two years laterAt the age of 50, of the AIDS virus. As for Pedro Almodóvar, he preferred to focus on his film Pilepublished the same year of Sister act. And it may not be worse from the film He won César for the best foreign film.

Source: Cine Serie

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