Sunset Boulevard? Back on the Big Screen?

A musical based on a 1950′s film, now becoming a movie?  If the rumors are true, then Glenn Close will reprise the role of Norma Desmond in the film Sunset Boulevard, based on the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical of the same name.  Though, as of October 2006, Sunset Boulevard has not started production.

Not sure if I’m excited about this movie prospect or not.

I love the musical.  I spent hours twirling around the kitchen in Oxford, singing the songs with my girls. And I can still be found doing the same thing today, minus the girls, if I find myself home alone.  What’s not to love about at show that has characters’s declaring, “I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.”

But Glenn Close as Norma?  I’m not so sure.  I saw her on TV in South Pacific. The only thing that saved that show was Harry! 

Just as Chris and I headed off to see Rent (the horribly disappointing film, not the fantastic stage production I saw twice), I’m sure I’ll try and convince him that we need to see the new Sunset Boulevard on the big screen.

Until then, it’s the original movie or dancing in the kitchen.