Having been fond of musicals during his time as a drummer, Chazelle first conceptualized the film alongsideJustin Hurwitz while attendingHarvard University together. After moving to Los Angeles in 2010, Chazelle penned the script but did not find a studio willing to finance the production without changes to his design. After the success of his filmWhiplash (2014), the project was picked up bySummit Entertainment.Miles Teller andEmma Watson were originally in talks to star, but after both dropped out, Gosling and Stone were cast. Filming took place in Los Angeles between August and September 2015, withthe film's score composed by Hurwitz, who also wrote the film's songs with lyricistsBenj Pasek and Justin Paul and the dance choreography byMandy Moore.
La La Land premiered at the73rd Venice International Film Festival on August 31, 2016, and was released theatrically in the United States on December 9, byLionsgate. The film emerged as a major commercial success, grossing $472 million worldwide on a budget of $30 million, and received widespread critical acclaim, particularly for Chazelle's direction and screenplay, the performances of Gosling and Stone, the score, musical numbers, cinematography, visual style, costumes and production design. It went on to receivenumerous accolades, including winning a record seven awards at the74th Golden Globe Awards and received eleven nominations at the70th British Academy Film Awards, winning five, includingBest Film. The film also received a record-tying fourteen nominations at the89th Academy Awards, winning in six categories includingBest Director andBest Actress (Stone). In the former category, Chazelle became theyoungest winner at age 32. It has since been regarded as one of thebest films of the 2010s and the 21st century, and as one of the best musical and romantic films of all time.[a] As of February 2023[update], a stage musical adaptation is in the works.[14]
While stuck in Los Angeles traffic, Sebastian "Seb" Wilder has a moment ofroad rage directed at aspiring actress Mia Dolan. After a hard day at work, Mia's next audition goes awry because the casting director takes a phone call during an emotional scene. That night, her roommates take her to a lavish party in theHollywood Hills, promising her that someone in the crowd could jump-start her career. After her car is towed, she walks home in disappointment.
During a gig at a restaurant, Seb slips into jazz improvisation despite the owner's warning to only play traditional Christmas pieces. Mia hears him playing as she passes by. Moved, she enters the restaurant and observes Seb being fired for his disobedience. Mia attempts to compliment him as he storms out, but he brushes by her. Months later, she runs into Seb at a party where he plays in a 1980s pop cover band. Mia requests that Seb play "I Ran" for her. After the gig, they walk to their cars and – despite an obvious chemistry – lament wasting a lovely night on each other.
Seb arrives at Mia's workplace, and she shows him around theWarner Bros. backlot, where she works as abarista, while expressing her passion for acting. He takes her to ajazz club, describing his passion for jazz and his desire to open his own club. Seb invites Mia to a screening ofRebel Without a Cause and she accepts, forgetting a date with her boyfriend. Bored with the latter date, she rushes to the theater and finds Seb as the film begins. When the screening is interrupted by a projector malfunction, Seb and Mia spend the rest of the evening together with a romantic visit to theGriffith Observatory.
After more failed auditions, Mia decides, with Seb's encouragement, to write aone-woman play. Seb begins to perform regularly at a jazz club, and the two of them eventually move in together. A former bandmate of Seb invites him to be the keyboardist in a new jazz fusion band, which will give him a steady income. Although dismayed by the band's pop style, Seb signs on after hearing Mia trying to convince her mother that he is working on his career. The band finds success, but Mia knows their music is not the type of music Seb wants to perform.
During the band's first tour, Seb and Mia argue: she accuses him of abandoning his dreams, while he claims that she liked him more when he was unsuccessful because it made her feel better about herself. Two weeks later, Seb misses Mia's play because of a photoshoot he had forgotten about. The play fails, very few people attend, and Mia overhears dismissive comments about her performance. Unable to forgive him for missing her play and their previous argument, Mia returns to her hometown ofBoulder City, Nevada.
Seb receives a phone call from a prominent casting director who attended Mia's play, inviting her to audition for an upcoming film. Knowing that this could be her big break, he drives in a hurry to Boulder City and finds her house since he remembered that she lived across the street from the library, where she fell in love with acting. Seb persuades her to attend, and she reluctantly agrees to go.
During the audition the next day, Mia is asked to tell a story. In response, she sings about how her aunt, a one-time stage actress who eventually died fromalcoholism, inspired her to chase her dreams. Confident the audition was a success, Seb encourages Mia to devote herself to acting. The two then recognize that they will always love each other despite what may come for their relationship.
Five years later, Mia is living a happy life as a successful actress and married to a different man, with whom she has a daughter. That night, the couple stumble upon a jazz bar. Recognizing the logo she had once designed, Mia realizes that Seb has opened his own jazz club. Seb notices Mia in the crowd and begins to play their love theme on the piano. The two imagine what their happy life together would have been had their relationship thrived along with their careers, then acknowledge each other with a silent exchange of smiles and go their separate ways.
As a drummer, Chazelle has a predilection formusical films.[15] He wrote the screenplay forLa La Land in 2010, when the film industry seemed out of reach for him.[16] His idea was "to take the old musical but ground it in real life where things don't always exactly work out,"[15] and to salute creative people who move to Los Angeles to chase their dreams.[17] He conceived the film when he was a student atHarvard University with his classmateJustin Hurwitz. The two explored the concept in their senior thesis through a low-budget musical about a Boston jazz musician,Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench.[18][19] Chazelle was moved by the tradition of 1920s "city symphony" films, such asManhattan (1921) andMan with a Movie Camera (1929), that paid tribute to cities.[20] After graduating, both moved to Los Angeles in 2010 and continued writing the script, but made a few modifications, such as altering the location to Los Angeles instead of Boston.[18]
Rather than trying to match L.A. to the charms of Paris or San Francisco, he focused on the qualities that make the city distinctive: the traffic, the sprawl, and the skylines.[20] The style and tone of the film were inspired byJacques Demy'sThe Umbrellas of Cherbourg andThe Young Girls of Rochefort, especially the latter, which was more dance and jazz-oriented.[21] The film also makes visual allusions to Hollywood classics such asBroadway Melody of 1940,Singin' in the Rain,The Band Wagon, andAn American in Paris.[22] AboutAn American in Paris, Chazelle commented: "That's a movie that we just pillaged. It's an awesome example of how daring some of those old musicals really were."[23] It shares some character development and themes with Chazelle's previous musical work,Whiplash; Chazelle said:
"They're both about the struggle of being an artist and reconciling your dreams with the need to be human.La La Land is just much less angry about it."[24]
He said that both films reflect his own experiences as a filmmaker working his way up the Hollywood ladder.[17]La La Land in particular is inspired by his experience of moving from the East Coast with preconceived notions of what L.A. would be like, "that it was all just strip malls and freeways".[20]
Chazelle was unable to produce the film for years as no studio was willing to finance an original contemporary musical with no familiar songs. It is also a jazz musical, whichThe Hollywood Reporter called an "extinct genre". He believed that since he and Hurwitz were unknown at that time, it might have made financiers dubious about the project's potential.[25][18] Gosling's character Sebastian holds a view of the jazz of the past being superior. According to an article by Anthony Carew, Chazelle wrote this character trait as a reflection of "[his] own relationship with the past and with jazz, too".[26] Chazelle found producers through friends who introduced him toFred Berger andJordan Horowitz. With the two producers on board, the script went toFocus Features at a budget of around $1 million. The studio demanded alterations: the male lead was asked to be changed from a jazz pianist to a rock musician, the complicated opening number had to be altered, and the story's bittersweet ending needed to be dropped. Chazelle scrapped the project and moved on.[18]
Chazelle later wroteWhiplash, which was an easier concept to sell and a less risky investment.[27] AfterWhiplash was well received by critics upon its premiere at the2014 Sundance Film Festival in January, Chazelle continued his efforts to bringLa La Land to the big screen.[18] A year later, whenWhiplash earned five Oscar nominations at the87th Academy Awards, includingBest Picture, and grossed nearly $50 million worldwide off a $3.3 million production budget, Chazelle and his project began to attract attention from studios.[25]
Five years after Chazelle wrote the script,[28]Summit Entertainment and Black Label Media, along with producerMarc Platt, agreed to invest inLa La Land and distribute it. They had been impressed by the critical and commercial success ofWhiplash.[17] Lionsgate's Patrick Wachsberger, who previously had worked on theStep Up franchise, pushed Chazelle to increase the film's budget since he felt high-quality musicals could not be made cheaply.[29]
Miles Teller andEmma Watson were originally slated to star in the leading roles. Watson dropped out to honor her commitments toDisney'slive-actionBeauty and the Beast remake (2017), while Teller exited via long contract negotiations.[16] Coincidentally, Gosling turned down theBeast role inBeauty and the Beast in favor ofLa La Land.[30] Chazelle subsequently decided to make his characters somewhat older, with experience in struggling to make their dreams, rather than younger newcomers just arriving in Los Angeles.[18]
Emma Stone plays Mia, an aspiring actress in Los Angeles.[25] Stone has loved musicals since she sawLes Misérables when she was eight years old. She said "bursting into song has always been a real dream of mine", and her favorite film is the 1931Charlie Chaplin romantic comedyCity Lights.[25][15] She studiedpom dancing as a child, with a year of ballet.[25] She moved to Hollywood with her mother at age fifteen to pursue a career, and struggled constantly to get an audition during her first year. When she did, she often was turned away after singing or saying just one line.[31] Stone drew from her own experiences for her character of Mia, and some were added into the film.[24]
Ryan Gosling learned tap dancing and piano for his role.
She met Chazelle in 2014 while she was making her Broadway debut inCabaret. Chazelle and Hurwitz saw her perform on a night when the actress had a cold.[25][32] She met with Chazelle at Brooklyn Diner inNew York City, where the director outlined his vision for the planned film.[33] Stone gained confidence from performing inCabaret to handle the demands of the film.[33] In preparation for her role, Stone watched some of the musical movies that inspired Chazelle, includingThe Umbrellas of Cherbourg andFred Astaire and Ginger Rogers collaborations.[28] Stone accepted the offer because Chazelle was so passionate about the project.[33]
Ryan Gosling plays Sebastian, a jazz pianist.[25] Like Stone, Gosling drew from his own experiences as an aspiring artist. One incident was used for Mia. Gosling was performing a crying scene in an audition and the casting director took a phone call during it, talking about her lunch plans while he was emoting.[25][31][34] Chazelle met with Gosling when he was about to begin filming forThe Big Short.[18]
The film was choreographed byMandy Moore. Rehearsals took place at a production office inAtwater Village, Los Angeles over the span of three to four months, beginning in May 2015. Gosling practiced piano in one room, Stone worked with Moore in another, and costume designerMary Zophres had her own corner of the complex.[25][18] Gosling, with no previous experience, had to learn how to play the piano; no hand models were used.[42] Moore emphasized working on emotion rather than technique, which Stone said was key when they filmed the "A Lovely Night" scene (searching for the parked car).[25] To help his cast and crew get their creative mode flowing, Chazelle held screenings on the soundstages every Friday night of classical films that had inspired him for the film, includingThe Umbrellas of Cherbourg,Singin' in the Rain,Top Hat, andBoogie Nights.[18]
From the beginning, Chazelle wanted the film's musical numbers to be filmed "head to toe" and performed in a single take, like those of the 1930s works of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.[33] He also wanted the film to emulate the widescreen,CinemaScope look of 1950s musicals such asIt's Always Fair Weather. Consequently, the movie was shot on celluloid 4-perf Super 35mm film (not digitally) with Panavision anamorphic lenses in CinemaScope's 2.55:1 aspect ratio, but not in true CinemaScope as that technology is no longer available.[43][44][45][46]
The opening pre-credits sequence was the first to be shot,[18] and was filmed on a closed-off portion of two carpool direct connector ramps of theJudge Harry Pregerson Interchange, connecting the I-105 Carpool Lane to the I-110 Express Lanes, leading toDowntown Los Angeles. It was filmed in a span of two days, and required more than 100 dancers.[17][51] For this particular scene, Chazelle wanted to give a sense of how vast the city is.[20] The scene was originally planned for a stretch of ground-level highway, until Chazelle decided to shoot it in the 105–110 interchange, which arcs 100 feet (30 m) in the air. Production designer David Wasco said, "I thought somebody was going to fall off and get killed." Not every portion of the highway was blocked.[18] Chazelle compared the scene to theyellow brick road leading to theEmerald City inThe Wizard of Oz (1939).[18]
TheAngels Flight (pictured), which was shut down for about four years, including at the time of the filming, was re-opened for a single day exclusively for the film to shoot a scene.
Chazelle scouted for "old L.A." locations that were in ruins, or were perhaps razed. One such example was the use of the Angels Flight trolley, built in 1901. Thefunicular had been closed in 2013 after aderailment. Attempts were made to repair and re-open the railway, but to no avail. However, the production team was able to secure permission to use it for a day. Chazelle and his crew then arranged to have it run for shooting (it was re-opened to the public in 2017).[20] Mia works at a coffee shop on theWarner Bros. studio lot; Chazelle considered studio lots to be "monuments" of Hollywood. Production designer Wasco created numerous fake old film posters. Chazelle occasionally created names for them, deciding to use the title of his first feature,Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench (2009) for one poster, which reimagines it as a 1930s musical.[20]
The now-iconic[52][53][54] six-minute-long "A Lovely Night" scene (searching for the parked car) had to be completed during the brief "magic hour" moment at sunset. It took eight takes and two days to shoot it.[25] When Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone finally nailed it, "everybody just exploded," Stone said.[33] Since Gosling and Stone were not primarily dancers, the two made a number of mistakes, especially during long uninterrupted single-take musical numbers. However, Chazelle was very sympathetic towards them, understanding their lack of experience and not minding their errors.[28] While shooting Sebastian and Mia's first dance together, Stone stumbled over the back of a bench, but picked right up and kept on going with the scene.[28] In 2024, Gosling reflected on the filming of this scene, wishing he can re-film it to correct the positioning of his hand in the famous still frame from the sequence that was used throughout the film's marketing, saying that "It just killed the energy that way ... It was all leading to what? A lazy ... I call it La La Hand."[53]
Chazelle said that the romantic dinner that Sebastian prepared for Mia was "one of the scenes that I think I wrote and rewrote and rewrote more than any other in the script".[55] Gosling and Stone also helped create the dialogue of the scene to get it to be one of the more realistic scenes in a film filled with fantasy and fantastical elements.[55]
Chazelle spent nearly a year editing the film with editorTom Cross, as the two were primarily concerned with getting the tone right.[18]
The songs and score forLa La Land were composed and orchestrated by Justin Hurwitz, Chazelle's Harvard University classmate, who also worked on his two prior films.[25] The lyrics were written byPasek and Paul,[33] except for "Start a Fire", which was written by John Legend, Hurwitz,Marius de Vries and Angelique Cinelu.[56] A soundtrack album was released on December 9, 2016, byInterscope Records, featuring selections from Hurwitz's score and songs performed by the cast.[56]
La La Land was originally set for a July 15, 2016, release;[63] however, in March 2016, it was announced the film would be given a limited release starting December 2, 2016, before expanding on December 16, 2016.[64] Chazelle stated that the change was because he felt that the release date was not right for the context of the film, and because he wanted to have a slow rollout beginning with the early fall film festivals.[24] The limited release was later moved back a week to December 9, 2016, with the wide release still being planned for December 16, 2016.[65] Lionsgate opened the film in five locations on December 9, 2016, and expanded it to about 200 theaters on December 16, 2016, before going nationwide on December 25, 2016. The film went fully wide on January 6, 2017,[50] with a release into selectIMAX theaters a week later.[66]
La La Land was released in the United Kingdom on January 12, 2017.[67] The film was released in theNetherlands on December 22, 2016, and inAustralia on December 26, with the rest of the territories planned for a release from mid-January 2017.[68]
La La Land grossed $151.1 million in the United States and Canada, and $320.9 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $472 million, against a production budget of $30 million.[70]Deadline Hollywood calculated the net profit of the film to be $68.25 million, when factoring together all expenses and revenues for the film, making it one of the top 20 most profitable releases of 2016.[71] This isRyan Gosling's second highest-grossing film, as it was displaced byBarbie in 2023.[72]
La La Land began its theatrical release with a limited release in five theaters in Los Angeles and New York City on December 9. It made $881,107 in its opening weekend, giving the film a per-theater average of $176,221, the best average of the year.[73][74][75] In its second week of limited release, the film expanded to 200 theaters and grossed $4.1 million, finishing seventh at the box-office. It was an increase of 366% from the previous week and good for a per-theater of $20,510.[76] The following week, the film had its wide expansion to 734 theaters, grossing $5.8 million for the weekend (including $4 million on Christmas Day and $9.2 million over the four days), and finishing eighth at the box-office.[77] On January 6, 2017, the weekend of theGolden Globes, the film expanded to 1,515 theaters and grossed $10 million over the weekend, finishing fifth at the box-office.[78] In its sixth week of release, the film grossed $14.5 million (a total of $16.9 million over the four-day weekend for Martin Luther King Jr. Day), finishing second at the box-office behindHidden Figures.[79] After receiving its 14 Oscar nominations, the film expanded to 3,136 theaters on January 27, 2017 (an increase of 1,271 from the week before) and grossed $12.1 million (up 43% from its previous week's $8.4 million).[80] During the weekend of February 24–26 (the weekend of the Academy Awards) the film grossed $4.6 million, exactly the same amount it grossed the previous weekend.[81] The next week, following its six Oscar wins, the film grossed $3 million.[82]
La La Land received widespread critical acclaim, with high praise directed towards Chazelle's direction and screenplay, cinematography, music, the performances of Gosling and Stone and their chemistry.[83][84][85][86] Thereview aggregatorRotten Tomatoes gives the film an approval rating of 91% based on 470 reviews, with an average rating of 8.7/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "La La Land breathes new life into a bygone genre with thrillingly assured direction, powerful performances, and an irresistible excess of heart."[87] OnMetacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 94 out of 100, based on 54 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".[88] It was the third- and sixth-highest scoring film released in 2016 on each respective site.[89][90] Audiences polled byCinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A−" on an A+ to F scale,[91] whilePostTrak reported audiences gave an 81% overall positive score and a 93% "definite recommend".[79]
Peter Travers ofRolling Stone gaveLa La Land four stars out of four, describing it as "a hot miracle" and complimenting its musical numbers, particularly the opening scene. He went on to name it his favorite movie of the year.[92]Michael Phillips of theChicago Tribune similarly lauded the opening sequence, in addition to highlighting Stone's performance, stating "she's reason enough to seeLa La Land." Despite being less enthusiastic about Gosling's dancing and the film's middle section, Phillips nevertheless gave the film four out of four stars, declaring it "the year's most seriously pleasurable entertainment".[93]A.O. Scott ofThe New York Times praised the film, stating that it "succeeds both as a fizzy fantasy and a hard-headed fable, a romantic comedy and a showbiz melodrama, a work of sublime artifice and touching authenticity".[94]Peter Bradshaw ofThe Guardian awarded the film five out of five stars, describing it as "a sun-drenched musical masterpiece."[95] Tom Charity ofSight & Sound stated, "Chazelle has crafted that rare thing, a genuinely romantic comedy, and as well, a rhapsody in blue, red, yellow and green."[96] Writing forThe Boston Globe,Ty Burr summarized the effectiveness of the film to relate to audiences stating: "...the movie traffics in the bittersweet happiness of treasuring things that are vanishing, like the unrealized future imagined in the climactic dance number, or those inky, star-filled dance floors that go on forever in old movies, or Hollywood musicals themselves. Or jazz: Sebastian has an early moment at a nightclub where he passionately sticks up for the music he loves. 'It's dying on the vine,' he says. 'And the world says 'Let it die. It had its time.' Well, not on my watch.' In that scene, he speaks for the director. By the end ofLa La Land, he's speaking for all of us."[97] FilmmakersJonathan Demme,Jay Duplass,Paul Feig,Chad Hartigan,Chris Kelly,Daniel Kwan,Rebecca Miller,Reed Morano,James Ponsoldt andNanfu Wang also praised the film.[98]
La La Land's competition for awards and critical attention with theAfrican-American filmMoonlight shortly after the election ofDonald Trump sharpened the attention on questions of racial sensitivity and unexaminedwhite privilege in the characters of film. While accolades from audiences and critics grew, the film received backlash for what some considered a disproportional amount of praise.[99]Saturday Night Live lampooned the fervor over the film with a sketch about a man arrested for thinking it was "decent... but also boring."[100] The film was criticized by some for its treatment of race and jazz. Kelly Lawler ofUSA Today noted that Gosling's character has been referred to as a "white savior" by some critics, for "his quest (and eventual success) to save the traditionallyblack musical genre from extinction, seemingly the only person who can accomplish such a goal."[101] The sentiment was also expressed by Ruby Lott-Lavigna ofWired,[102] Anna Silman ofNew York,[103] and Ira Madison III ofMTV News.[104]Rex Reed of theNew York Observer also took aim at the film's intention to emulate the MGM musical classics, writing that "the old-fashioned screenplay, by the ambitious writer-director Damien Chazelle, reeks of mothballs", and that "the movie sags badly in the middle, like a worn-out mattress that needs new springs".[105] TheSouth China Morning Post remarked that aside from its racial treatment of jazz, much of the public criticism was towards the film being "a little dull", the two leads' singing and dancing being considered unexceptional, and the lack of nuance in Stone's character, with Gosling's occasionally seen as insufferable.[100]
Since its release,La La Land continues to receive acclaim. It is regarded as a modern classic and one of the best films of all time due to its captivating performances, attention to detail, and its assent to previous movie musicals such asSingin' in the Rain.[106] In 2019,CBC Radio included it on its list of "the greatest romantic movies of all time." In 2021, Helena Trauger ofThe Beacon called it the best film of the 2010s, stating that it is "one of the most creative and well-executed films that every person should attempt to watch at least once." In 2022,Time Out ranked it number 79 on its list of the "100 Best Films of the 21st Century," writing that it "has a signature all of its own, stopping traffic in the first glorious sequence."[107]
MovieWeb ranked the film number 2 on its list of the "Best Movie Musicals of the 21st Century So Far," in 2022 as well. In 2023, it ranked it number 3 on its list of the "15 Greatest Movies About Jazz" and number 1 on its list of the "Best Modern Movies Shot on Film."[108] It also ranked number 2 onTeen Vogue's list of "The 45 Best Dance Movies of All Time."[109] The film ranked number 15 onCollider's list of the "30 Best Musicals of All Time," with Jeremy Urquhart writing, "It works as a modern update/homage to classic Hollywood musicals that were popular in the 1950s without ever feeling derivative or mocking, and Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling in the lead roles both give great performances that are up there with the best of their respective careers."
It also ranked number 8 onParade's list of the "67 Best Movie Musicals of All Time," with Samuel R. Murrian writing that the film is "many things, thusly its own creation: deftly blending a modern showbiz melodrama, a giddy throwback, a striking love story."Screen Rant also ranked it at number 10 on its list "The 35 Best Musicals of All Time" and number 1 on its list of "The 12 Best Movie Musicals of the 21st Century," whileIndieWire ranked it at number 12 on its list of "The 60 Best Movie Musicals of All Time." Wilson Chapman, curation editor for IndieWire, wrote thatLa La Land's story has just the right harmony of romance and melancholy, and that pieces such as "Another Day of Sun" and "A Lovely Night" are catchy and rememberable. He remarked that the Oscar-winning "City of Stars," as well as others of Hurwitz's scores, are "some of the finest written for any movie this century."[b] In 2024,Looper ranked it number 11 on its list of the "51 Best PG-13 Movies of All Time," calling the film "a deeply affecting feature thanks to a pair of great performances from Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling. Any movie likeLa La Land that gets toes tapping and tears flowing with such grace is worth remembering."[111]
During the Oscars ceremony, presenterFaye Dunaway incorrectly announced thatLa La Land had won Best Picture, reading from the cardWarren Beatty opened, which was actually a duplicate of the Best Actress card for Emma Stone.[127] After the cast and crew ofLa La Land took the stage, it took the show's producers more than two minutes (during which nearly three speeches were made) to fix the mistake. The actual winner wasMoonlight.[128]
In March 2017,La La Land was at the center of aprank involvingGoldene Kamera, an annual German film and television award. German comediansJoko Winterscheidt andKlaas Heufer-Umlauf arranged for a Ryan Goslingimpersonator to be awarded the "Best International Film" prize forLa La Land.[129][130][131] Following the event, a speaker for television broadcasterZDF asked for the trophy to be given back, stating thatLa La Land had won the prize and that the trophy would be given to the real Ryan Gosling.[132] The incident, which became known as "GoslingGate", sparked criticism of the event's concept. Media critics argued that the "Best International Film" award had only been created in an effort to get Ryan Gosling on the show, with no regards for the film's quality. The incident played a major role in the cancellation of the Goldene Kamera in 2019.[133][134] In 2018, Winterscheidt and Heufer-Umlauf were awarded theGrimme Award for theirmedia criticism.[135]
On February 7, 2023, it was announced that the film would be adapted into a Broadway musical by Platt and Lionsgate. Hurwitz, Pasek & Paul will return to write additional songs for the show.Bartlett Sher will direct from a book byAyad Akhtar andMatthew Decker.[136]
A theatricalspin-off,So Long Boulder City, was also created in 2017 by comediansJimmy Fowlie andJordan Black. The show was a full-length parody of Mia Dolan's one-woman show from the movie, and featured Fowlie indrag as Mia.[137]So Long Boulder City debuted in Los Angeles before enjoying a run at the SubCultureOff-Broadway theater in New York City.[138]
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