In what is Blumhouse’s most ambitious project yet, Richard Linklater is bringing Stephen Sondheim’s musical Merrily We Roll Along to the big screen, but will shoot the film over a 20-year time span, starring Beanie Feldstein, Ben Platt and Blake Jenner.
Principal photography has been completed for the first segment of the film. Linklater shot his Oscar-winning pic Boyhood over 12 years.
Ginger Sledge (Where’d You Go, Bernadette, Everybody Wants Some!!); Jason Blum (Whip Lash, Get Out) for Blumhouse Productions; Jonathan Marc Sherman; and Linklater are producers on the film. Rick Pappas brokered the deal on behalf of the authors of the musical, Stephen Sondheim & George Furth.
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