Will & Grace (film)

Will & Grace: The Movie is an upcoming romantic comedy film adaptation of Will & Grace (1998-2006), which is scheduling for June 11, 2010 release. Filming has began on August 2009.

Development
Producers of Will & Grace were planning to make the film adaptation for their TV series, which debuts in 1998, and were legally aiming for June 11, 2010 release. The cast of the show were legally planning to reprise their roles for the film. Pre-production first began back in 2008, where they plan to be shooting in spring 2008 for summer 2009 release, but they production and release date was postponed for summer 2009 production for summer 2010 release. The director of the show, is legally planning on returning as director the film from the following TV series since its' finale in 2006.

The film will set four years after the show's series finale. The film is originally going to be the same set like to the TV show, but decided to get more details to the film, and the sets for the film will be different than the show. The soundtrack will be based onto the film. A theme song will be remade for the film dramatically. Max Mutchnick, creater of Will & Grace took months writing a script for the movie, but is having a hard time of making up a script, so the project of the movie failed. Although, David Kohan has a gotten his plan up to set up a movie. Blake Brown, who portray as Greg from the show, will reprise his role for the movie, although would be seen in just a few couple of scenes.

This movie brought its' production budget of $100 million to make it expensive. Warner Bros. is currently producing the movie.

Casting
Production for casting did began in early November 2008 and went over till late May 2009, where casting ceased. Eric McCormack, Debra Messing, Sean Hayes and Megan Mullally all reprises their roles as Will Truman, Grace Adler, Jack McFarland and Karen Walker from the TV series as of November 2008. On December 2008, On February 2009, it was confirmed that Jennifer Lopez would appear into the film as herself, since her appearance from the show, during Karen Walker's 51st birthday, and her marriage to marry Jack, who is tired on being gay, and wanting to become straight scene.

On March 17, Bobby Cannavale will return as Vince D'Angelo, Will's husband, which he broke up with Vince, because of him having feelings with Grace. On March 29, John Cleese and Minnie Driver would both reprise their roles as Lyle and Lorianne Finster, but seems that they didn't have the plot for the idea inside the movie, as they both were written out of the film. On April 10, Blythe Danner wishes to reprise her role as Will Truman's mother. On May 1, Michael Angarano will not reprise his role as Elliot for the film, because of the plot was taken away from him. On May 5, Blake Brown, who portrays Greg from TV series, has scheduled to reprise his roles for the film, will only be seen at Karen Walker's wedding. Male Model Jon Mullaly will play the role of himself for the film, which will be Rosario Salazar's love interest. Jonas Brothers will be seen into the film as camero apperance singing a song at Will & Grace's wedding.

Filming
Filming for Will & Grace: The Movie has began on August 28, 2009, and was shot in Los Angeles, California. The filming has started with Will, Grace, Jack, Karen and Rosario starting to head to Karen's mothers' wedding in Hawaii. Filming is expected to be finished this summer. The final scene is at the wedding where Will and Grace to married, and was filmed as final sequence before the happy ending after the wedding scene on December 26, 2009. The film is now in post-production.

Promotion
The release date for Will & Grace: The Movie was announced in the US for June 11, 2010. The release date was also set for Canada, Austrailia, Germany, Brazil, United Kingdom, France and Greece of June 11 as well. On January 23, 2010, the film issued a PG-13 rating for sexual content. The movie is 138 minutes long (2 hrs. 18 min).

Release
A Teaser trailer for the film was released on January 19, 2010, as well as it's official website lauched. A poster was released online with the pictue of Will, Grace, Jack and Karen bowing down, just one day after it's trailer releasing. The full-length trailer for the movie was released on 26th February.

Cast

 * Eric McCormack as Will Truman
 * Debra Messing as Grace Adler
 * Megan Mullally as Karen Walker
 * Sean Hayes as Jack McFarland
 * Shelley Morrison as Rosario Salazar
 * Jon Mullaly as Himself
 * Debbie Reynolds as Bobbi Adler
 * Alan Arkin as Martin Adler
 * Harry Connick, Jr. as Dr. Marvin "Leo" Markus
 * Tom Gallop as Rob
 * Leigh-Allyn Baker as Ellen
 * Jerry Levine as Joe
 * Tim Bagley as Larry
 * Blythe Danner as Marilyn Truman
 * Blake Brown as Greg
 * Joe Jonas as himself
 * Kevin Jonas as himself
 * Nick Jonas as himself