Miramax, Mottola Put Up \'Wall\' on Broadway

Thu Aug 5, 3:48 PM ET

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Miramax Films and veteran record producer Thomas Mottola on Thursday unveiled plans to stage a Broadway production of Pink Floyd\'s rock opera "The Wall," about a narcissistic and neurotic rock star named Pink.

Pink Floyd founder Roger Waters (news), who conceived the album that has sold over 23 million copies since 1979, will write the book for the show and orchestrate the music, the producers said in a statement.

"Now I can write in some laughs, notable by their absence in the movie," Waters said in the statement.

"The Wall" was made into a film in 1982 that was directed by Alan Parker and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

But it is the double-album with songs such as "Hey You" and "Comfortably Numb" that is best remembered and is the third best-selling music album of all time.

Waters and Pink Floyd performed the music in 1980 and 1981, and Waters put on a massive $8 million production of "The Wall" in Berlin in 1990.

It has never been developed as a musical stage show, and a date that the curtain might go up was not disclosed.

Mottola, a major player in the music industry who ran Sony Music Entertainment for 15 years, took the project to Miramax co-chiefs, the brothers Bob and Harvey Weinstein.

The Weinsteins and Miramax are best known for making hit films like "Chicago" and "Spy Kids," but in recent years have backed several Broadway productions such as Tony winner, "The Producers" and the revival of "Gypsy."