{"id":25906,"date":"2013-01-15T08:00:56","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T13:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=25906"},"modified":"2018-11-09T14:00:45","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T19:00:45","slug":"is-blazing-saddles-galloping-towards-broadway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/01\/15\/is-blazing-saddles-galloping-towards-broadway\/","title":{"rendered":"Is BLAZING SADDLES Galloping Towards Broadway?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/BlazingSaddles.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25907\" alt=\"BlazingSaddles\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/BlazingSaddles.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/BlazingSaddles.jpg 723w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/BlazingSaddles-300x124.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/BlazingSaddles-550x228.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a>It may have been a joke in the closing musical number of his Broadway adaptation of <strong>Young Frankenstein<\/strong>, but Mel Brooks is still actually thinking of adapting another of his comedies, <strong>Blazing Saddles<\/strong>, for the stage.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the Television Critics Association Press Tour yesterday, Brooks responded to the possibility of turning his classic western comedy into by saying &#8211; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A lot of it is musical already. It has a rather fanciful and fantastic tone to it. and now that <strong>Django Unchained<\/strong> has literally used the N word, I think I\u2019m in the clear. I don\u2019t look so bad. He really used that word a lot.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Brooks has been talking about a possible Blazing Saddles musical since about 2008, but there doesn&#8217;t seem to be any actual work being done on one. And since <em>Young Frankenstein<\/em> wasn&#8217;t as big a hit on Broadway as his previous movie-turned-musical <em>The Producers<\/em>, it doesn&#8217;t seem as if there is too much pressure n Brooks to get cracking on one either.<\/p>\n<p>But let&#8217;s face it, you know you want to see Mongo punch out that big <em>War Horse<\/em> puppet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Trotting, maybe? A slow canter?<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/01\/15\/is-blazing-saddles-galloping-towards-broadway\/\" title=\"Is BLAZING SADDLES Galloping Towards Broadway?\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[1613,1609],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25906","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-blazing-saddles","9":"tag-mel-brooks"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25906"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=25906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}