Academy Award winner Danny Boyle, the director behind Slumdog Millionaire and Steve Jobs, is allegedly in talks to direct the film adaptation of famed 1991 musical Miss Saigon.
According to Broadway, Boyle is now tentatively part of the long-awaited project, though there has been no official confirmation from Miss Saigon producer Cameron Mackintosh, nor from the production house involved, Working Title Films.
Though Mackintosh first floated the idea of a film adaptation to the musical in 2009, development has been slow. In 2013, director Lee Daniels was also briefly attached to Miss Saigon, however he later left the project.
When film production finally gets rolling, both Thanh Nien and Dan Tri report Mackintosh has expressed his wishes to film in Vietnam as well as Cambodia.
Set in 1975, Miss Saigon tells the story of 17-year-old Kim, a young bar girl, and Chris, an American GI. The two fall in love during the final days of Saigon's American occupation, changing their lives forever. A revival of the musical is currently touring across Europe, Asia, Australia and the Middle East and will arrive on Broadway in 2017.
Whatever happens, we're hoping the cast includes actors of Vietnamese descent, as Broadway has a history of casting non-Vietnamese actors to play the musical's Vietnamese parts and Hollywood is not much better.
[Photo via Miss Saigon]
