“Tous en scene 2”, in search of a lost legend

The first “All on stage“in 2016 had been a great success, collecting nearly $ 200 million at the American box office. The story of Buster Moon, a koala owner of a theater in bad shape, who organizes a singing competition to give him back his Glory had attracted nearly three and a half million spectators in France.

Five years later, how to renew the story while keeping the freshness and humor of the previous film? Garth Jennings, the director, explains that the process of writing and creating the second installment began before they even finished the first. “We spoke calmly, quietly, to laugh over coffee“, he says.”We knew very quickly that we would like to take these characters further, as far as they could go with their ambitions and their dreams.“

Buster Moon’s theater works well, but he dreams of something bigger, more prestigious, and therefore of a show in a big city copying Las Vegas: with his troupe he will therefore have to seduce the dreaded Jimmy Crystal who makes the rain and the good weather in the events on the spot and will try to convince Clay Calloway, singer who had his hour of glory but now recluse, to accompany them. A quest which reinforces the epic and adventurous side of this second part for the director: “It’s funny because these conversations started very informally. Wouldn’t it be cool to have an icon, a legend? What if, for example, this legend was not available?“

“There is no shortage of stories like this: artists, musicians, actors or writers who have been at the top, but at one point who have chosen to disappear. We want to know why.”

Garth Jennings

to franceinfo

If it is not as original and funny as the first, inevitably, “All in Scene 2“remains a very pleasant entertainment to see with the family, with again a lot of sung moments. It’s Bono, the singer of U2, who lends his voice to Calloway in the original version, but if you prefer the French version, know that Jenifer Bartoli, Camille Combal or Gérard Lanvin are there.