Will Dewey Finn ever return?
The Big Picture Although Richard Linklater is best known for his work in independent features like Slacker, Boyhood, and Dazed and Confused, he managed to reach a much broader audience with his 2003 family film School of Rock. Paired with an excellent screenplay by future The White Lotus writer Mike White and one of Jack Black’s most endearing performances, School of Rock became the one Linklater film that managed to reach beyond the arthouse crowd.
At the time, it made sense that all three men would be interested in developing a potential franchise. Although Black was coming off of a series of critically acclaimed dramatic performances in King Kong, The Holiday, and Margot at the Wedding, he hadn’t been as successful with his live-action comedies. Similarly, Linklater had struck out with audiences with his remake of The Bad News Bears and Fast Food Nation.
Although Richard Linklater attempted to court a mainstream audience once more with Me and Orson Welles, he soon returned to his independent sensibilities. The success of Before Midnight and Boyhood proved that Linklater worked better when handling more mature material. Although he went on to direct the acclaimed comedies Everybody Wants Some and Where’d You Go, Bernadette?, neither film was successful on the level of School of Rock.
School of Rock’s popularity skyrocketed in 2013 when Andrew Lloyd Webber bought the rights to the film in order to turn it into a stage musical. The School of Rock musical debuted in 2014 to rapturous reviews and followed up its Broadway run with tours in the U.K., Argentina, Ireland, and Australia. School of Rock was nominated for four Tony Awards, including Best Musical and Best Actor in a Musical for Alex Brightman, who replaced Black as Dewey.
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