Into the Woods behind the scenes gags

Into the Woods

A key role in the original musical is the "narrator". Jeremy Irons, Christopher Plummer, Jeffrey Rush, Michael Caine, Alan Rickman, etc. have been considered for acting. Later this role was removed from the script.
Catherine Zeta-Jones, Michelle Pfeiffer, Penelope Cruz, Idina Menzel, Kate Winslet, Nicole Kidman, Sissy Spike have all hoped Acting in the role of "witch".
The film is the first time Disney has adapted a stage play or musical from Broadway.
Hollywood has been trying to put "Magic Black Forest" on the screen. In 1994, Robin Williams, Gotti Han and Cher are expected to star, and then Columbia plans to remake it, starring Bill Kristol, Meg Ryan and Susan Sarandon.
Matthew Broderick, John C. Nellie, Neil Patrick Harris, Colin Firth and Jim Carey have all been candidates for "The Baker."
British child star Sophia Grace Brownlee was originally scheduled to star in "Little Red Riding Hood", but she was replaced by 2-year-old Lila Crawford a week before the filming started, who was 12 years old when she starred.
The plot of the movie is basically faithful to the stage play. The change lies in the removal of the "narrator" and the use of the voice-over of the "baker" throughout the film. Secondly, the "mysterious man" will not appear in the movie version. Streep's "Witch" is equivalent to the combination of the two roles of the witch and the mysterious man in the musical.
The film is Johnny Depp's second appearance in a Broadway musical adaptation. The last "Barber Todd". Like "Magic Black Forest", it is the work of Stephen Joshua Sondheim, the composer of musical drama.
This film is the fifth time Meryl Streep has appeared in a film adapted from a stage/musical.
As the content of the original musical was too adult and dark, Disney requested to change the script, and the character of Rapunzel and several scenes about death were rewritten or deleted.
Jack Jyllenhaal was selected to star in "Prince of Cinderella", and Chris Pine starred in "Prince of Rapunzel". Later, Jaylenhaal withdrew, and Pine changed into "Prince of Cinderella", and his original role was replaced by Billy Magnussen.
Daniel Huttstone, who plays "Jack", has only acted in one movie before, and that is "Les Miserables" which is also adapted from the famous Broadway musical.
Rob Marshall once invited Emma Stone to play "Cinderella", but the latter politely declined because she was worried that her voice was inappropriate. She joked that she is more suitable to play "Jack".
Francis de la Tuva played the giantess in Ian, and she played the same role in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
With a budget of only US$50 million, Rob Marshall had to give up the idea of making it into 3D.
Alan Cumming was expected to star in "Big Bad Wolf."
This film is Rob Marshall's fourth song and dance/movie with song and dance elements after "Chicago", "Memoirs of a Geisha" and "Nine" directed by Rob Marshall.