Cary Fukunaga Still Working On Musical With Owen Pallet & Beirut’s Zach Condon, But Wants To Take It To The Stage First

Filmmaker Cary Fukunaga is a waste not, want not kind of guy. When he puts time and effort into developing a project, he doesn’t just abandon it because it hasn’t been green-lit by a studio. Take his upcoming African child soldiers drama “Beasts Of No Nation,” which arrives in theaters and Netflix next week. Fukunaga wrote the adaptation of Uzodinma Iweala’s book sometime after “Sin Nombre” in 2009, and after trying to make it at Focus Features, stuck with the movie. In fact, the director suggested he was compelled to make the picture since he had already invested so much time on research and interviewing people from war-torn regions on top of working closely with the author.

"Once you start doing the research, once you start putting together material which inevitably be for publication, or in this case for distribution as a movie, there's a responsibility that goes along with it,” he said.

To that end, Fukunaga confirmed he is still working on a musical with Arcade...