Somewhere in all that, he and Smith and Zdunich agreed to develop a Repo! movie, starting with a 10-minute proof-of-concept short that Bousman directed in 2006. Just like that, Bousman became the temporary keeper of the enormously profitable Saw franchise, further directing Saw III in 2006 and Saw IV in 2007 (neither of which he wrote). This went from being a weakness to a strength in short order, when Bousman rewrote it to become the 2005 release Saw II, which he also directed. And Bousman was about to become kind of a biggish deal, thanks to his screenplay The Desperate, which was being dismissed as "too close to Saw".
Now, one of its iterations along the way was directed by Darren Lynn Bousman, a recent film school graduate at the time. And whatever else one might say about the movie, I offer the unmitigated praise that it never once feels in any way stagebound: indeed, it's so free-floating and energetic as a cinematic object that I truthfully can't quite figure out what a stage version of this material might possibly look like. The film was born as a stage musical developed by Darren Smith & Terrance Zdunich over a period of years the first version was staged in 2002, the last in 2005.
But I cannot imagine someone being bored, or indifferent. I can imagine almost any possible reaction to the film: I can imagine someone feeling incredible passion for the movie and turning into a raving cultist on the spot I can imagine someone being repulsed within seconds and treating the whole thing like the most appalling trash. Here's the one thing that is unambiguously true about Repo! The Genetic Opera: it sure is a hell of a lot of movie. Grade: C (Rated R for strong bloody violence and gore, language, some drug and sexual content.A review requested by Kelleson Dale, with thanks to supporting Alternate Ending as a donor through Patreon.ĭo you have a movie you'd like to see reviewed? This and other perks can be found on our Patreon page! Paris Hilton also turns up, still trying to be famous for more than being famous. Sarah Brightman, who once starred in " Phantom of the Opera" and was married to Andrew Lloyd Webber, plays the haglike Blind Mag and lends some oomph to the relatively tone-deaf score.
Its president, the appropriately named Rotti Largo, is played by Paul Sorvino, who has sung opera professionally and has a suitably strong voice. It's set in 2056 when an epidemic of organ failures has created a thriving industry in organ transplants administered by a nefarious conglomerate called GeneCo. " Repo! The Genetic Opera," based on a fringe stage musical that played in Los Angeles a few years back, is like a compost of "Rocky Horror" and " Sweeney Todd," but without the floridity or the savage wit.
If you are one of those midnight movie devotees still on the lookout for the next " Rocky Horror Picture Show," – well, keep on looking.
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