The film version of Into the Woods which was released today was not the first attempt to turn the Broadway musical into a movie. In the early nineties, Jim Henson's company had a go at it, apparently not long after Mr. Henson's untimely passing. Here's an article about that effort…which frankly doesn't sound bad to me. (I'm assuming neither of the two different casts from two different readings would have been the final cast of the film).