It's now official: Grey Gardens has metastasized and is about to be presented in every form of media currently known to man.
In 1976, brothers Albert and David Maysles made a documentary about Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter—who was also named Edith. The pair lived in a rundown house on Georgica Pond called Grey Gardens with fifty odd cats, racoons and in general squalor and the film caused quite a sensation when it was released because the Edies (as they were known) were related to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. That's where it all began.
Thirty years later, the documentary was adapted into a Broadway musical starring Christine Ebersole (called Grey Gardens, natch) and it went on to win the Tony Award.
Enter Albert Maysles for round two. He came back to make another documentary (this one is titled: Grey Gardens: From East Hampton to Broadway) and it will premiere at the Hamptons International Film Festival. You might be able garner from the title that the documentary is about the process of translating Grey Gardens from a documentary into a musical.
Naturally, the next logical step here was to make a movie of Grey Gardens, which is exactly what HBO intends to do. The film will star Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange and the word is that it will be based on the documentary rather than the musical. So probably very little singing from Drew.
No word on when Grey Gardens the video game is hitting shelves.
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