Film Adaptation of SUNSET BOULEVARD in the Works! Will Glenn Close Reprise Her Role?
Film Adaptation of SUNSET BOULEVARD in the Works! Will Glenn Close Reprise Her Role?
#1Film Adaptation of SUNSET BOULEVARD in the Works! Will Glenn Close Reprise Her Role?
Posted: 1/4/16 at 1:50pm
If so, could she finally win her long-awaited Academy Award?
#2Film Adaptation of SUNSET BOULEVARD in the Works! Will Glenn Close Reprise Her Role?
Posted: 1/4/16 at 1:57pm
So many of these stage-to-film adaptations that are announced as "in the works" often times never see the light of day. But if by chance this does wind up getting made I would love to see someone else do the role of "Norma Desmond".
She really is too old for the role, and besides she had the opportunity to do it on Broadway so why not let another age appropriate actress get a chance to play it?
I could see Jake Gyllenhaal as "Joe Gillis"
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#3Film Adaptation of SUNSET BOULEVARD in the Works! Will Glenn Close Reprise Her Role?
Posted: 1/4/16 at 1:58pm
Something's a little off here. Webber said on Theatre Talk that they were close to confirming the filming of the ENO performance (like Sweeney). I can't imagine both that and a film version would be in the works at the same time.
#4Film Adaptation of SUNSET BOULEVARD in the Works! Will Glenn Close Reprise Her Role?
Posted: 1/4/16 at 2:02pm
Tag said: "Something's a little off here. Webber said on Theatre Talk that they were close to confirming the filming of the ENO performance (like Sweeney). I can't imagine both that and a film version would be in the works at the same time."
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#5Film Adaptation of SUNSET BOULEVARD in the Works! Will Glenn Close Reprise Her Role?
Posted: 1/4/16 at 2:08pm
Tag said: "Something's a little off here. Webber said on Theatre Talk that they were close to confirming the filming of the ENO performance (like Sweeney). I can't imagine both that and a film version would be in the works at the same time.
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#6Film Adaptation of SUNSET BOULEVARD in the Works! Will Glenn Close Reprise Her Role?
Posted: 1/4/16 at 2:48pm
So basically nothing new here.
Same old same old.
When we start getting concrete info regarding casting and creatives I'll believe it.
....but the world goes 'round
#7Film Adaptation of SUNSET BOULEVARD in the Works! Will Glenn Close Reprise Her Role?
Posted: 1/4/16 at 2:51pm
I don't want to see Glenn Close do this. Film her ENO performance and get someone else for the film. Please.
They/them.
"Get up the nerve to be all you deserve to be."
#8Film Adaptation of SUNSET BOULEVARD in the Works! Will Glenn Close Reprise Her Role?
Posted: 1/4/16 at 3:03pm
I wouldn't mind a film of the ENO concert as long as Webber doesn't auto tune the s#!t out of it like he did with the Jesus Christ Superstar arena tour filming.
Has there been any mention of a designer for the concert? Will it be like Price's Sweeney Todd concert or more fully staged and designed like the Phantom of the Opera anniversary concert?
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#9Film Adaptation of SUNSET BOULEVARD in the Works! Will Glenn Close Reprise Her Role?
Posted: 1/4/16 at 3:22pm
Price is directing it, so I imagine more Sweeney-like.
#10Film Adaptation of SUNSET BOULEVARD in the Works! Will Glenn Close Reprise Her Role?
Posted: 1/4/16 at 3:42pm
"She really is too old for the role"
I'm curious, how old is Glenn Close? Norma Desmond was at her peak in silent films.
<-----I'M TOTES ROLLING MY EYES
#11Film Adaptation of SUNSET BOULEVARD in the Works! Will Glenn Close Reprise Her Role?
Posted: 1/4/16 at 3:48pm
Norma is supposed to be 50. Glenn is 68.
#12Film Adaptation of SUNSET BOULEVARD in the Works! Will Glenn Close Reprise Her Role?
Posted: 1/4/16 at 4:48pm
Yes, but if it makes sense, I think being 50 in 1950 is different than being 50 in 2016.
#13Film Adaptation of SUNSET BOULEVARD in the Works! Will Glenn Close Reprise Her Role?
Posted: 1/4/16 at 4:53pm
I'm really not convinced her reprising the role for the ENO is a great move. She had a very thin, light voice back in 1994 when she starred in LA and Broadway. Don't think 20 years on will improve that and do justice to one of ALW's most beautiful scores.
#14Film Adaptation of SUNSET BOULEVARD in the Works! Will Glenn Close Reprise Her Role?
Posted: 1/4/16 at 5:46pm
I remember Mr. Lloyd Webber saying that if the film was going to be made that he wanted Madonna to play Norma. I don't know if this would mean she would have to do more vocal training, like she did for "Evita". I don't even know if she would be interested in playing a has been, unless their was Oscar talk behind it...I LOVE the original film, saw Glenn Close on Broadway and was severely disappointed...
Updated On: 1/4/16 at 05:46 PM#15Film Adaptation of SUNSET BOULEVARD in the Works! Will Glenn Close Reprise Her Role?
Posted: 1/4/16 at 5:51pm
I'm for anyone who hasn't played it before. I think Madonna would be lovely.
They/them.
"Get up the nerve to be all you deserve to be."
#16Film Adaptation of SUNSET BOULEVARD in the Works! Will Glenn Close Reprise Her Role?
Posted: 1/4/16 at 5:52pm
People looked a lot older then their age in the 40's and fifties. Partly fashion, partly life styles ( drinking ,smoking and unhealthy eating). Just take a look at the movies from that era!
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#17Film Adaptation of SUNSET BOULEVARD in the Works! Will Glenn Close Reprise Her Role?
Posted: 1/4/16 at 5:56pm
If it really happens I think Glenn would be amazing.
And I would so love to see her get an Oscar.
....but the world goes 'round
#18Film Adaptation of SUNSET BOULEVARD in the Works! Will Glenn Close Reprise Her Role?
Posted: 1/4/16 at 5:59pm
It will never happen, and it never should.
Leave that great, singular, perfect, of-its-time movie alone.
#19Film Adaptation of SUNSET BOULEVARD in the Works! Will Glenn Close Reprise Her Role?
Posted: 1/4/16 at 6:01pm
What just went through my mind was the sound of Betty Buckley singing the last line of With One Look, and then I imagined the same line coming from Madonna. oy vey.
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#20Film Adaptation of SUNSET BOULEVARD in the Works! Will Glenn Close Reprise Her Role?
Posted: 1/4/16 at 6:06pm
Plus Norma didn't have a fake British accent.
....but the world goes 'round
#21Film Adaptation of SUNSET BOULEVARD in the Works! Will Glenn Close Reprise Her Role?
Posted: 1/4/16 at 6:11pm
I would love to see Glenn Close give an incredible close-up acting performance on film, with a heavy technology supported studio-recorded soundtrack.
But don't have much interest to see her struggle with the score in a concert setting.
Please, not Madonna. We have already had to suffer her in Evita.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
Updated On: 1/4/16 at 06:11 PM
#22Film Adaptation of SUNSET BOULEVARD in the Works! Will Glenn Close Reprise Her Role?
Posted: 1/4/16 at 6:33pm
Please no.
But as Gypsy seems DOA, Barbra Streisand would be a much better fit for Sunset. A faded star desperately clinging to fame and a lover? Seems like a wonderful vehicle for her.
"Sticks and stones, sister. Here, have a Valium." - Patti LuPone, a Memoir
#23Film Adaptation of SUNSET BOULEVARD in the Works! Will Glenn Close Reprise Her Role?
Posted: 1/4/16 at 6:57pm
Had the film been made 15-20 years ago, I would have begged to have Liza cast as Norma. Now, I really just DON'T want Close or Streisand. And I can't think of a single reason why Madonna would be cast, much less why anyone would want her cast other than to cash in on her fan base with no regard about the film itself. There is zero evidence she would be able to handle the role or the score in a remotely believable way. Not unless they cut most of her music and reset the action to take place in a trendy gay dance club. Not that I think she'd even be interested. She'd have to remove her grill and she needs it to piss people off.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
#24Film Adaptation of SUNSET BOULEVARD in the Works! Will Glenn Close Reprise Her Role?
Posted: 1/4/16 at 7:13pm
It'll never happen, a studio would never back this project, especially since Lloyd Webber films have consistently underperformed at the box office, and that was back when studios were interested in producing movies that didn't feature super heroes or lightsabers.
I'll still indulge in the fantasy casting. I agree that Close would be great with the help of technology-enhanced vocals. Her voice is strong enough that they could "sweeten" the sound without making her sound like a robot. Yes, she's older than Gloria Swanson was when she played the role. But I don't think casting an older Norma would have a negative impact on the piece, it's not like she looks like she is in her 80s.
Really, the actress working today that I think would most closely capture the elegance, sexiness, darkness and delusion that Swanson immortalized is Catherine Zeta-Jones. Give her a visionary director who can rein her in when needed and let her go big when necessary and I firmly believe she could be a Norma for the ages.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
#25Film Adaptation of SUNSET BOULEVARD in the Works! Will Glenn Close Reprise Her Role?
Posted: 1/4/16 at 7:55pm
I mean, in my dreams Patti would take Sunset to the silver screen and bring her rage and fury to create the perfect Norma - the one encaptulated in her final performance, which is, what I consider, the peak of Norma's material. Of course, she would never take the part nor would she be considered. But I can still dream, right?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4sVjqAqaTs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFzD-ddoUcg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ft3gUoQMyzc
PS I thought Zeta-Jones was banned from musicals after her horrific Tony performance. Kidding, of course :)
"Sticks and stones, sister. Here, have a Valium." - Patti LuPone, a Memoir
