It's official........"Sunset" is being filmed!

[colleen_lee]

Posted: 11/15/07 at 5:25pm

And Patti LuPone is starring. My friend's friend has a cousin whose dog was bred by the sister of someone who caters for a major Hollywood studio!

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[DMsquared2]

Posted: 11/15/07 at 5:31pm

Can't this just be kept for the stage? The original film is a such a classic.

[bobby_luvs_bway]

Posted: 11/15/07 at 5:36pm

It can only be one studio, as Paramount Pictures owns the rights to the property. I doubt this is true, but I would love it.

[NYC_or_Bust]

Posted: 11/15/07 at 5:36pm

lol, sarcasm aside, i'd LOVE to see Bernadette Peters in this role...

[bobby_luvs_bway]

Posted: 11/15/07 at 5:39pm

It has to be a movie star or it simply won't work. ALW has even said the tours and sit downs had to have stars or the public doesn't buy the story.

[Scarywarhol]

Posted: 11/15/07 at 5:44pm

As funny as this thread is, it was a rather ass move to title that as if it were fact.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 11/15/07 at 5:45pm

That's why I was never able to get into Babe. It should have been a real talking pig.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 11/15/07 at 5:47pm

So, if this true, then Paramount will be able to figure out who leaked it. I hope your friend doesn't get in trouble!

[pab]

Posted: 11/15/07 at 5:50pm

"Colleen_Lee, wow...wouldn't that be something if Patti L does the movie?"

Yeah right, I'm sure ALW would just love that idea.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 11/15/07 at 5:54pm

No, but he's probably the only one who told someone who immediately posted it on the internet. Or maybe you're lying.

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 11/15/07 at 5:57pm

Peters as Norma Desmond? What crack are you on?

[best12bars]

Posted: 11/15/07 at 5:57pm

My friend's cousin, whose next door neighbor knows someone who used to move the cars at the Paramount Car Wash, said Kim Catrall is playing Norma Shearer in Anthony Lord Webber's Sunset Beach.

So there.

[nealb1]

Posted: 11/15/07 at 6:10pm

Well, I guess we'll just wait and see what happens....

[stan39520]

Posted: 11/28/07 at 2:20am

no i doubt. Paramount sold off the film rights when ALW made the musical. ALW has the release rights only. If the movie gets made then the movies productions cost are all on ALW just like Phantom of the Opera

[alxscrz2]

Posted: 11/28/07 at 3:16am

I have a feeling Elaine Paige is going to play norma in the film. But I still wish Patti had a chance to be in the film

[Baiseur82]

Posted: 11/28/07 at 3:27am

I just hope that if it is true they don't butcher it. This is one of my favorite shows. I don't think that Patti would be asked to do the film and even if she was do you think she would?

[gertiecummings]

Posted: 11/28/07 at 3:35am

Why not Glenn CLose??????????

[rosscoe(au)]

Posted: 11/28/07 at 3:52am

I just rang a friend, who rang another friend, who then emailed his sisters best friend, who spoke with a friend of a friend, who spoke with Sarah Brightmans best friend, who called Tim Rice's mother and said none of this is true!

[best12bars]

Posted: 11/28/07 at 9:18am

See? That proves it.

[Thesbijean]

Posted: 11/28/07 at 12:16pm

And I was at ALW's Thanksgiving, seeing as we are brothers, and he told me that Carol Channing blew him away in auditions

[Pippin]

Posted: 11/28/07 at 12:20pm

actually I heard that Carol just blew him at auditions.

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 11/28/07 at 12:29pm

I just spoke to a rep at RUG and she informed me that though these rumors keep running rampant (which they LOVE), there is no validity to them.

A film-version of the musical SUNSET BLVD. is not in development nor in any pre-planning stage. Not now and not in the near future. No casting nor any writing is taking place at all.

She also said that they receive numerous inquiries to confirm these film rumors several times a week from various media outlets all over the world.

Again...to quote Glenn Close (who is monitoring all this for all the obvious reasons), responded with "...don't hold your breath" when recently asked how soon could we expect the film-version of SUNSET BLVD. to be made.

Sorry.

[Fosse76]

Posted: 11/28/07 at 12:47pm

"ALW has the release rights only."

I assume you mean "stage" rights.

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 11/28/07 at 12:59pm

If SUNSET were to be filmed (and I'm probably in the minority here by thinking if the current movie musical trend continues, it very well could) the turn around could potentially happen quickly. SWEENEY TODD was, after all, only put on an extreme fast track last year, though it had been in development with different parties for years.

To the best of my knowledge, Paramount still controls the distribution rights for any potential movie of the property, but the film itself would be produced by Really Useful Films, ALW's company.

[Brave Sir Robin2]

Posted: 11/28/07 at 2:14pm

Woah, ssfun...

I think some people were joking. Talk about gullibility.