Missing ‘La La Land’? ‘The Greatest Showman’ is coming
Oscar-winning songwriting duo Benj Pasek and Justin Paul already have another big screen musical on the horizon
City of Stars might still be stuck in your head, but the Oscar-winning La La Land songwriting duo Benj Pasek and Justin Paul already have another big screen musical on the horizon: The Greatest Showman starring Hugh Jackman as P.T. Barnum.
20th Century Fox on Thursday unveiled a fever dream of a trailer at CinemaCon for the musical drama, set to bow Christmas Day. The Michael Gracey-directed P.T. Barnum story looks like a slightly less kinetic Moulin Rouge but with all the requisite bright colours and elaborate song and dance numbers.
Jackman was on-site in Las Vegas to introduce the trailer. He called the film, in-the-making for seven years, a pop period piece of hyper-reality.
