Sunset Boulevard and Aspects of Love Movie Musicals?

This may have been posted before, but I searched to no avail.

IMDB.com reports that movie musicals for both Sunset Boulevard and Aspects of Love are in the works.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0469609/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0287927/

And countless others listed at:

http://www.moviemusicals.net

Here's more info on Sunset:

"After Bombay Dreams opens in the West End later this year, Webber wants to really concentrate on getting movies made. Now that both "Cats" and "StarlightExpress" have closed in London he could do with the money.

Encouraged by the success of the UK tour he wants to fast tracked "Sunset Boulevard" for production. They have outlined who they want for the picture and are on the verge of starting to approach them. Either Joel Schumacher or Skekar Kapur is wanted for director, whilst Glenn Close, Bette Midler and Liza Minnelli are the favorites for Norma Desmond.

Edward Norton, Robert Downey, Jr and Hugh Jackman are wanted for the male lead, Joe Gillis. Kate Winslet, Faith Hill and Martine McCutcheon are in line for Betty, with Patrick Stewart as Max and Albert Finney as Cecil B. De Mille. Julie Taymor, director of The Lion King on Broadway is wanted for a re-make of "Jesus Christ Superstar"

Updated On: 12/6/05 at 12:17 AM

tnks for the info...interesting.

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Don't get your hopes up - Aspects of Love has been on imdb.com for about five years, despite there having been no news that it is actually going to be made

Thats too bad about Aspects... of all the direct to video releases of ALW stuff, Aspects and Sunset are the two that I hoped for the most... Even Trevor Nunn's "dizzying" production (how often do people use that description for his productions? Les Miz, Aspects, WIW...) of Aspects most likely would have worked well on Television as is.

Last I heard Hugh and Glenn were signed for Sunset and nothing else had been said. As far as Taymor doing JCS....didn't we just have a filmed version of this not 4 years ago, granted it sucked and I'm sure Taymor could do a better job.......but come on!

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After Bombay Dreams opens in the West End later this year,

This information is a bit old, isn't it? Bombay Dreams has already opened and closed on Broadway.

We were promised an announcement about the movie version of Sunset Boulevard earlier this year, but it never happened. There was some discussion of Jackman vs. McGregor, but when Ewan was asked about the part (at a movie premiere), he said he didn't know anything about it.

So even if they do plan to make it, I think any casting rumors at this point are probably null and void.

I hope this doesn't *procrastinate* for 15 years, like Phantom. Any wonder if Glenn Close will end up in the same position as Michael Crawford.

Jee, I hope not. But it always takes forever for Lloyd Webber to make a film

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If they ever do the Aspects movie I hope that Andrew Lloyd Webber learned with Phantom that he better put the original cast in the movie...otherwise it will suck. My 2 cents anyway. Michael Ball is the only Alex and Ann Crumb the only Rose!

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