A WRITER’S VOICE: ‘Into The Woods’ – Navigating the Development Process
Jacob Krueger breaks down the adaptation of ‘Into the Woods’ from stage to screen.
Adapting a stage musical to the screen is never easy. On stage, musicals work because of their theatricality—the feeling of pretend, play, magic, and performance. Whereas in the relatively naturalistic world of film, those elements are very hard to pull off. Which makes the surprisingly successful film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s and James Lapine’s stage musical Into The Woods even more worthy of study.
In this podcast, I'll discuss how adapting Into The Woods for Disney might just have been one of the most challenging projects ever.
Listen to the podcast below or here. Want more Into The Woods? Check out my 7 Act Structure Seminar about the film.
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The founder of Jacob Krueger Studio, Jacob has worked with all kinds of writers, from Academy and Tony Award Winners, to young writers picking up the pen for the first time. His writing includes The Matthew Shepard Story, for which he won the Writers Guild of America Paul Selvin Award and was nominated for a Gemini Award for Best Screenplay. To follow Jacob’s blog or learn more about his Screenwriting Workshops, Online Classes, and International Retreats please visit WriteYourScreenplay.com.
