Actual Movie News

OK so yesterday I wrote that I was going to talk about actual news.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone have formed a new production company, Important Studios. 

And their first important film is going to be...
The big screen adaption of The Book of Mormon

Rejoice, denizens of Earth! Please get really excited about this.
Matt & Trey have made movie musicals before. I'd call "South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut" a musical. Of course, they made "Cannibal! The Musical" as their first film. And somehow, "Orgazmo" and "Team America: World Police" had wonderful songs.
They finally get to do a straight up, singing and dancing musical.

The Book of Mormon is one of the best Broadway musicals of all time. Yes, the songs and dancing are catchy, but the book is genius. In classic, dare-I-say Mark Twain style satire, BoM takes you on a journey that is the most vulgar and hilarious religious experience of your life. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll call God terrible things before admitting you love Jesus. It uses religious criticism to raise your religious tolerance. It's the only written work in the English language that ever got a laugh out of raping babies.
And it's coming to the big screen in the Post-Les Mis world, where musicals are the new superhero movies and superhero movies are as elaborate productions as 50s musicals.

Now, this gives me, Dom, the guy who's blog you're reading, to do my favorite game.

Cast That Movie: Book of Mormon Edition

So, this is the movie version of a musical, where sometimes, you give actors roles they don't deserve so that more people see it.

like so

and like so

and let's never forget that we allowed Hasselhoff to ruin Jekyll and Hyde:

With this history educating my choice...

Edler Price: Cory Monteith

Yes, the Glee motherfucker.
Give him the lead. He can probably sing it and probably play an idealistic and enthusiastic 19 year old well. Any other emotions...well, he's gonna put butts in the seats. He's that Glee motherfucker afterall.

"O hai lolz I'm a 17 year old girl and I like Glee, I should see that movie! Songs about genital mutilation LOLWUT?"

That's what Matt & Trey really want- to troll girls.

Elder Cunningham: Josh Gad

Now sometimes with movie musicals, you're better off if you don't change a thing. Anyone else who would play Elder Cunningham would be doing a Josh Gad impression.


Let Josh Gad be the obligatory actor who reprises his role, and we'll be good.

Nabulungi: Get A Time Machine, A Bring Back Anika Noni Rose in 1997.

This is the perfect role for her; just her range, just her look, and the acting chops required are off the charts from drama to comedy. My only concern is getting the time machine to work. If we can't master time travel within the next two years, my second pic is...

Tessa Thompson

Who becomes my first pic if we can't master time travel by the time casting starts...

Elder McKinley: Andrew Rannells

You may recognize Andrew as the original Elder Price, or from being a mystically animated mannequin.

He has since found notoriety playing the gay character on every new show that needs a gay character

Giving him Elder McKinley gives him the role he plays best, gay comic relief. Technically closeted, but still, he gets the funniest song.


But forget all those parts. There are two parts that MATT & TREY MUST CAST.

At one point, the missionaries put on a play for the missionaries, in which they show when Joseph Smith meets Angel Moroni

These parts are a both cameos, yet, in a real Matt and Trey move, you need to cast two stars for these parts.

For Joseph Smith:

For Moroni:

1st off, look back at that painting and tel me it wasn't a painting of Jack Human and NPH.

 Mind blown.
2nd- These two. They're arguably the two most famous musical theater actors in America. And they have such great chemistry; every year at the Tony's they display such chemistry.

One portion of one scene is all I need, just bring these two together in a movie. Matt & Trey, you have the power to combine Hugh and Neil. You can make the film that finally combines them, you can do this!

Don't let me down, The Book of Mormon, the movie. There's probably no way you can let me down; even if none of these actors are in this movie, I'm confident in the boys to make knock this out of the park.

If somehow, and this is a major pipe dream, any of these thoughts get to Matt & Trey (and I'm not even assuming they'll read this, I'm just hoping somehow the thoughts telepathically meander to their heads), if any of this can come true, please, please, please, let Hugh Jackman and Neil Patrick Harris cameo as Joseph Smith and Moroni.
It's my favorite idea I've ever had...this week.