I wonder about that too.
Details on this are pretty scarxe at the moment as the movie is in it's early stages still.
Word is, though, that rather than it being a musical film, it will be a film in which the music is strongly featured, if you can see the distinction. So no dancing tripods then.
I think a nice idea would for the songs to be featured in visual set pieces.
For example, with 'Forever Autumn', we would see images of the Narrator and Carrie walking in a park, indespersed with images of Carrie's steamer pulling away and leaves falling.. That kind of thing. The rest of the film would be normal, with Jeff's music used as a backing.
I'd certainly like to see the surviving cast members reprise their roles.
Burton's narration, whilst not really necessary throughout, could be used at the outset and at point where dialogue isn't possible or a point has to be made.
Someone like Sean Pertwee would be good to play the Journalist in the dialogue scenes, I think. He has a similar kind of quality to his voice as Burton had.
