Liza Minnelli starring in Sunset Boulevard
Liza Minnelli starring in Sunset Boulevard
#1Liza Minnelli starring in Sunset Boulevard
Posted: 7/18/09 at 12:46am
Wow...just looking at IMDB and it has Miss Liza as Norma Desmond(rumored)...What a comeback to films if she can pull it off...She could be Great...
Updated On: 7/18/09 at 12:46 AM
blaxx
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#2re: Liza Minnelli starring in Sunset Boulevard
Posted: 7/18/09 at 1:11amWorst thread ever.
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Byron Abens
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#3re: Liza Minnelli starring in Sunset Boulevard
Posted: 7/18/09 at 1:25am
Liza as Norma is a trainwreck waiting to happen. I'm far more excited about seeing the "announced" status in her profile concerning her reprising the role of Lucille Austero in the feature film of Arrested Development. At least the comedy in that movie would be intended to elicit laughter.
(I just rewatched the series on DVD recently and absolutely fell in love with Lucille 2 all over again, especially any time we see her falling down because of her virtigo)
#4re: Liza Minnelli starring in Sunset Boulevard
Posted: 7/18/09 at 4:28pm
Sounds like inspired casting...after all she has been living the role for the last 10 years or so. It could be a catharsis of some sort for her.
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Updated On: 7/18/09 at 04:28 PM
#5re: Liza Minnelli starring in Sunset Boulevard
Posted: 7/18/09 at 4:37pmIn case this thread was serious...you know that any Joey Schmoey can update IMDB without any sort of verification process, right?
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#6re: Liza Minnelli starring in Sunset Boulevard
Posted: 7/18/09 at 11:40pmI'd love to see that! Too bad is just a rumor...
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#7re: Liza Minnelli starring in Sunset Boulevard
Posted: 7/19/09 at 12:06amThe SUNSET movie will be done with Loretta Swit as Norma. Dream casting and a true box office lure.
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#8re: Liza Minnelli starring in Sunset Boulevard
Posted: 7/19/09 at 12:13amWho is Lorreta Swit? If I don't know her, I doubt she is a big box office draw.
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philly03
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#9re: Liza Minnelli starring in Sunset Boulevard
Posted: 7/19/09 at 1:27am
I like how people actually think Lloyd Webber would pick someone in the movie for a name-draw...Now Emmy Rossum and Gerard Butler are household names, but not back in 2004.
Glenn Close, Barbra Streisand, Liza, and even Petula Clark have all been suggested. You know who Lloyd Webber could potentially pick, and her name has been rumored too: Elaine Paige, who I felt did the best with the part.
Who knows if it even happens! But I hope so!!!
#10re: Liza Minnelli starring in Sunset Boulevard
Posted: 7/19/09 at 1:54am
^Yes, and the Phantom movie pretty much fizzled, compared to expectations.
If they make a movie, I seriously hope they get a real lyricist to make the lyrics less embarrassingly amateurish. The music is beautiful, but as is, the show turned into a movie would only invite and deserve all of the criticism it will inevitably receive as a pointless remake of a nearly perfect film.
#11re: Liza Minnelli starring in Sunset Boulevard
Posted: 7/19/09 at 2:20am
"Glenn Close, Barbra Streisand, Liza, and even Petula Clark have all been suggested. You know who Lloyd Webber could potentially pick, and her name has been rumored too: Elaine Paige..."
Poor Patti.
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#12re: Liza Minnelli starring in Sunset Boulevard
Posted: 7/19/09 at 9:01am
Contrary to something said above, I think you have to provide reference of some sort to make changes on IMDB, unless some people (paying possibly) have a different facility.
But Liza Minelli would surely be a train wreck. I would really like to see the film made actually, and made well, but "IF" it ever happens, it won't be under ALW's auspices. He doesn't have the rights. Paramount do. And casting is therefore very likely to be entirely box office determined at the expense of credibility and integrity. I wouldn't put it past them to go with Liza Minelli actually, if they thought she would put bums on seats. The trouble is that the musical isn't generally well known enough on it's own account.
#13re: Liza Minnelli starring in Sunset Boulevard
Posted: 7/19/09 at 1:59pm
Emmy Rossum is hardly a "household name." And PHANTOM was a big mistake from every angle but the casting was especially one of its biggest errors. In fact, part of the reason SUNSET hasn't been made is because of the waste of a movie that PHANTOM was for everyone involved.
Helen Mirren should play the part, Close can reprise the role if they wanna go for an American actress.
And to whoever mentioned Liza in ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT, she was the best recurrent guest star they had, Lucille 2 was one of Liza's best roles, definitely her funniest, and she nailed it, I really hope she comes back to the role for the movie! I love her vertigo.
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#14re: Liza Minnelli starring in Sunset Boulevard
Posted: 7/19/09 at 2:14pm
To be fair, pretty much every problem in the movie of Phantom can be traced back to one man, Joel Schumacher, or as he was called by a bunch of sci-fi/comic geeks in a Robot Chicken sketch, History's Greatest Monster.
And I was the one who brought up Lucille 2. I can not imagine that once that movie gets off the ground that she will not be making another attempt at having that forbidden love with Buster, or at least I certainly hope not.
#15re: Liza Minnelli starring in Sunset Boulevard
Posted: 7/19/09 at 2:16pm
I love Lucille 2's obsession with Buster and was sad when she started seeing Gob. I hope she goes back to her true love 
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#16re: Liza Minnelli starring in Sunset Boulevard
Posted: 7/19/09 at 2:29pmIf the film were made today, methinks they would cast Meryl Streep as she is probably the biggest box office draw of females in her age range. Plus advertising her in a musical not far off the heels of Mamma Mia seems a good business venture.
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#17re: Liza Minnelli starring in Sunset Boulevard
Posted: 7/19/09 at 2:39pm
The original Sunset Boulevard with Gloria Swanson was perfect.
I don't want to see it remade...especially as a musical.
The idea is so Citizen Kaneish.
#18re: Liza Minnelli starring in Sunset Boulevard
Posted: 7/19/09 at 2:39pmThere is a Citizen Kane movie musical?
#19re: Liza Minnelli starring in Sunset Boulevard
Posted: 7/19/09 at 3:01pmI have a feeling the sunset boulevard movie will never happen.
...everyone was doing the mambo and drinking golden cadillacs...
#20re: Liza Minnelli starring in Sunset Boulevard
Posted: 7/19/09 at 3:22pm
Saw Liza in concert last night.
This is the same site that said for the past 5+ years that SB was coming with Glenn Close and Ian McGregor. Here we are all of these years later.....and, nothing's happened.
It's like that Cher rumor that pops up every few years, for the past 10+, that says she's going to do "Mame" for tv.
So, there you go.
Updated On: 7/19/09 at 03:22 PM
