GLENN CLOSE will play Norma Desmond for the first time on screen after her two runs on Broadway (for which she won a Tony Award) and one run in London's West End.
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"In Hollywood of the 50's, the obscure screenplay writer Joe Gillis is not able to sell his work to the studios, is full of debts and is thinking in returning to his hometown to work in an office. While trying to escape from his creditors, he has a flat tire and parks his car in a decadent mansion in Sunset Boulevard. He meets the owner and former silent-movie star Norma Desmond, who lives alone with her butler and driver Max Von Mayerling.
Norma is demented and believes she will return to the cinema industry, and is protected and isolated from the world by Max, who was her director and husband in the past and still loves her. Norma proposes Joe to move to the mansion and help her in writing a screenplay for her comeback to the cinema, and the small-time writer becomes her lover and gigolo.
When Joe falls in love for the young aspirant writer Betty Schaefer, Norma becomes jealous and completely insane and her madness leads to a tragic end."
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Glenn Close has given further information about the long-awaited film adaptation of Sunset Boulevard.
In a recent interview with the Los Angeles Times, Close was asked if we will ever get to see her revive her iconic role of Norma Desmond on the big screen.
"Well, we're all ready to go," she revealed. "It's just the craziness of all the backlog out of COVID. We're just waiting to get the final money together and to be given the final green light."
On a potential start date for filming, Close said, "I hope we're shooting it later this summer."
Based on Billy Wilder's classic Academy Award-winning film, Andrew Lloyd Webber's Tony Award-winning Best Musical SUNSET BOULEVARD features a celebrated book and lyrics by Don Black and Christopher Hampton.
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I'm so excited for this, SB is one of my favourite movies of all time and Glenn as Norma Desmond in the musical was out of this world. I just found out literally five minutes that it's in pre-production.
Glenn finally getting her Oscar?
20-06-2021, 04:03 AM
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A "Sunset Boulevard" Musical Movie is in the works...
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