The Drama Fag Strikes Back

I woke up this morning to the trailer for the Chris Columbus-helmed "Rent" on, of all places, a comic book message board. I was obsessed with this show my junior year of high school, which was the year it debuted. If you were in any theatre program that year, this was THE hot shit.

It appears Columbus has taken the original production and essentially transplanted it, main cast and all, to real life New York. He also smartly used nothing but "Seasons of Love" for the trailer, and lets that song speak for itself (remember the mess that was the trailer for "Chicago"? They basically had the entire score in that trailer). All this from the guy who gave us "Stepmom." Go fig.

I'm also happy to say that it appears they only replaced two of the OBC: Mimi (which I am thankful for) is now being played by Rosario Dawson (which I am also thankful for), and Joanne is now being played by Tracie Thoms (who I fell for when she was on that show no one watched, Wonderfalls).

The fact that by watching the trailer I can point out severlal key scenes and songs bodes very well for the film. Hell, Columbus could do the worst directing job of his career, and this film would still pull off the job just fine by virtue of the fact that he has about 85% of the OBC.

11-11-05. Save the date, folks.

FACT!: This will be the second time Chris Columbus directs Anthony Rapp. He previously directed him in Rapp's feature-film debut, "Adventures in Babysitting" (he was the best friend who was obsessed with Playboy).