If he's got no remorse, it must be Magnum Force!

A man's gotta know his limitations. One Robyn Hitchcock however, doesn't seem to. Mr. Hitchcock wants to turn the Dirty Harry sequel into a musical and maybe even take to Broadway. Seriously.  I understand that as a society we have to remake, reboot, sequelize, or make into Broadway plays every property that even had a modest amount of success, but this is getting crazy. Besides the fact that Magnum Force is an action movie, the character lived and dies with Mr. Eastwood. Nobody else can play the role. Not a soul. And even having the character of Dirty Harry break out in song is so against character it just cannot work. Just look at this trailer and tell me how this works? How do they pull of the vigilantes gunning people down all over San Francisco? 

And I'm not against musical theater at all. I am gay after all, but this is just getting stupid. If ever there were two things that defined mutually exclusive it'd be the audience for musical theater and the audience for a Dirty Harry movie. They cannot exist together. If ever they were to come into contact the world would implode and cease to exist. How would this make money? Who would see this besides the morbidly curious like myself? If it ever comes to fruition, it'll close in a week. 

"Honey, I know you had your heart set on The Lion King, but let's go see Magnum Force!" 

"The hell we will! You know the deal. I gave you oral sex last night, you're going to The Lion King with me. And if I hear one more word, I'm taking you to Xanadu!" 

Lion King, now that can work as a play. As can Xanadu, The Producers, Young Frankenstein, Shrek, Billy Elliot, and so on. There are plenty of properties that can work as theater and plenty that I really can't see working. 

So I want to hear from you dear reader. What's a property that is so stupid it can work as a musical play and what's one idea so stupid it'll never work as a musical play? 

I'm going to go with Star Trek as something that really could work as musical theater. How come Paramount isn't timing this to come out with the reboot movie? It'd have to have a camp value and if they used cheesy sets and make-up like the original series it could be campy fun. They really only have to do the inside of the ship. Throw a few fake rocks on the stage for an alien planet. Boom. It works. It couldn't be any worse than Mamma Mia! right?   

As for what would never work? Hands down Mad Max. That series lives and dies in vehicles. But knowing the powers that be, they'll damn sure try! 

What do you think?