'Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat' is being developed as an animated family film
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is being developed as an animated family feature film, and its original creators are onboard to bring it to the big screen this time around.
Andrew Lloyd Weber and Tim Rice, who wrote the music and lyrics for the 1970s West End and Broadway smash, are developing the project with STX Films, which announced the movie Tuesday at Cinemacon in Las Vegas. Also onboard to lend a hand with the music is Elton John, STX said.
Other than that, there's little we know about the project, which will be one of the upstart Hollywood studio's first forays into animation.
Joseph -- based on the "coat of many colors" story from the Book of Genesis -- was developed as a live-action film in 1999 that starred Donny Osmond ... then went straight to video. So technically, this would be the first big-screen Dreamcoat of any kind.
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Josh Dickey is Mashable's Entertainment Editor, leading Mashable's TV, music, gaming and sports reporters as well as writing movie features and reviews.Josh has been the Film Editor at Variety, Entertainment Editor at The Associated Press and Managing Editor at TheWrap.com.A finalist for the Los Angeles Press Club's Best Entertainment Feature in 2015 for "Everyone is Altered: The Secret Hollywood Procedure that Fooled Us for Years," Josh received his BA in Journalism from The University of Minnesota.In between screenings, he can be found skating longboards, shredding guitar and wandering the streets of his beloved downtown Los Angeles.
