They stole America's hearts, an Oscar and no less than $9 million of box-office loot. Less than a year later, star-crossed Once songwriters/lovers Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová are done for.
Once, by far the cheapest (and cheapest-looking) movie to ever win an Oscar, is getting over one more time on the muscle of its soundtrack. A trio of producers today announced they have optioned last year's indie hit for the stage, plotting to bring the tale of an Irish busker and his broken-vacuum toting Eastern European ladylove who absolutely refuse to stop singing under any circumstances to the Broadway berth where they belong. But will the original duo be invited back, whether you want them or not?
Among the paucity of feel-good stories to emerge from this year's Academy Awards, few out-heartwarmed that of Once's buskers-turned-Oscar winners Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova. Even fewer, reports Time Magazine, can yield the kind of cross-media windfall spawned by their strategically marketed songcraft:
