Glenn Close to Take SUNSET BOULEVARD Musical to the Silver Screen?

Speaking to the Daily Mail's Baz Bamigboye, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber said he's considering the possibility to film the show with Glenn Close in the role of Norma Desmond. 

For her portrayal, Close won a Tony Award, a Drama Desk Award, a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award and a Dramalogue Award.

While by no means is the film a done deal, Lloyd Webber already has a plan: "We’d rehearse and use a sound stage or a theatre and film it as a performance on stage," he says.

The cost to recreate and film the show is estimated at around £1.5 million ($2.3 million), as compared to Lloyd Webber's Love Never Dies in Melbourne, which cost approximately £400,000 ($624,000) to film. Still, the composer says, "For relatively little money you get a film that maybe you screen in a cinema for a couple of nights and then release as a DVD."

Read the Daily Mail article here.

Based on the Billy Wilder film, SUNSET BOULEVARD is a story is about Norma Desmond, a relic of the early years of filmmaking. When talkies pushed silent films and their stars out of the limelight, Norma locked herself into her mansion with her memories, an ex-husband and a chimp as her only companions. Twenty years later, when disillusioned screenwriter Joe Gillis stumbles within her reach, Norma sees in him an opportunity to make her "return" to the big screen.

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