Emma Stone & Ryan Gosling to star in La La Land

Both Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone are to star in the Musical La La Land. They will play the male lead and female lead respectively.

Emma Stone is still in talks with the heads of Lionsgate Studios for an appearance in La La Land. This is a musical based upon Damien Chazelle’s artworks. Emma Watson rejected the role in favor of playing Belle in Beauty and the Beast. That of course leaves the slot open for Emma Stone to enter and employ her acting chops to their limits. 

Meanwhile, Ryan Gosling is the male lead who is being cajoled to play a role opposite the beautiful and sexy Emma Stone. La La Land portrays a shy actress and a confident jazz musician who fall in love in Los Angeles.

But the situations are not in their favor and they /4/be forced to drift apart. It is a tragicomic romance and deals with the big questions in life such as the meaning of intimacy and how human beings are playthings of the gods.

A musical that takes you in, it almost presents life as an epic bittersweet symphony. The city of Los Angeles has proved once again that it is a factory that literally sells bottled dreams.  

Given below is Chazelle’s description for “La La Land” movie that is obtained by TheWrap.

“I’d like to make a contemporary musical about L.A., starting with the L.A. we know but slowly building to a vision of the city as romantic metropolis–one that is actually worthy of the dreams it inspires. I’d like to make a musical about the way L.A.’s peculiar rhythms can push its residents to the edge of their emotions–be they hope, desperation or love. Think the kind of teetering-toward-madness you see in “The Graduate” or “Boogie Nights”, and imagine if you were to push that further. In this case, the city pushes its residents all the way: it pushes them into song.

The characters of this movie are just people trying to make it. One thing most movies about struggling L.A. actors and musicians miss is the poetry of their struggle: these are blue-collar folks working day in and day out to make something happen. What I’m interested in is pitting their yearnings and their ambitions against the musical genre. After all, musicals are all about the push-and-pull between reality and fantasy; the heroes of this film, because of their big dreams, are constantly poised on that edge.

At its core, this is a movie about artists in love–and what it means to be an artist in love in arguably the most competitive city on the planet. How do you juggle the need to find success as an artist with the need to share oneself with another human being? And how do you do so in a place where every poster, every street corner and every sign remind you of the glories just beyond reach? L.A. is the “Dream Factory”, and to me there’s something swooningly romantic about that: all those unsung songs and unrealized ideas clouding the air. By casting an affectionate eye on a pair of young hopefuls, while aspiring to the kind of full-fledged romanticism you hardly ever see in today’s movies, I hope to capture the spirit of the city I now call home, and make a movie that feels both classical and urgent–and, yes, intrinsically L.A.”