Taglines: A Fantasy, A Musical, A Place Where Dreams Come True.
Xanadu movie storyline. In Los Angeles, artist Sonny Malone reluctantly returns to his job at Airflow Records – his job to do poster-sized exact renderings of album covers for on-site promotions, the renderings to be as close to the originals as possible – as he could not make a living as a freelance artist, where he could truly use his artistic vision. On his first day back at Airflow, he gets sidetracked by the thoughts of a young woman who literally roller skates into him.
What he is unaware of is that their initial encounter and subsequent encounters are not by accident as she, Kira, a muse, was awakened by his lamentations about his art, she sent to help him achieve his artistic vision. This day, Sonny also meets aging Danny McGuire, a former big band musician turned construction company owner, he who wants to return to his roots by owning a live music venue. Danny initially and Sonny also do not know that their meeting is not by accident as Sonny will soon discover that Kira was part of his past. Sonny and Danny achieving their dreams is threatened by Kira knowingly albeit unpurposefully having broken the rules.
Xanadu is a 1980 American musical fantasy film written by Richard Christian Danus and Marc Reid Rubel and directed by Robert Greenwald. The title is a reference to the nightclub in the film, which takes its name from Xanadu, the summer capital of Kublai Khan’s Yuan Dynasty in China. This city appears in Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a poem that is quoted in the film. The film is a remake of the film Down to Earth (1947), the sequel to Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941).
Xanadu (1980)
Directed by: Robert Greenwald
Starring: Olivia Newton-John, Gene Kelly, Michael Beck, James Sloyan, Dimitra Arliss, Katie Hanley, Fred McCarren, Renn Woods, Melinda Phelps, Juliette Marshall, Yvette Van Voorhees
Screenplay by: Richard Christian Danus, Marc Reid Rubel
Production Design by: John W. Corso
Cinematography by: Victor J. Kemper
Film Editing by: Dennis Virkler
Costume Design by: Bobbie Mannix
Set Decoration by: Marc E. Meyer Jr.
Music by: Barry De Vorzon
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: Universal Pictures
Release Date: August 8, 1980
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