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Старые 10-07-2005, 22:40   #1
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обратите внимание Экранизация Sunset Boulevard

Дождались! Экранизация мюзикла Сансет Бульвар определенно состоится. Об этом пишет британская газета Telegraph: http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/mai...10/nfilm10.xml . Она, конечно, еще не истина в последней инстанции, следовало бы дождаться подтверждения со стороны RUG, но опыт показывает, что подобным публикациям верить можно, тем более что сам Эндрю несколько месяцев назад рассказывал, что ведет переговоры о съемках этого фильма. Так что - гип-гип ура! :D

Текст статьи:

Glenn Close and Ewan McGregor are to star in a £33 million film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Sunset Boulevard.

Close, 58, who won a Tony Award for her portrayal of Norma Desmond in the Broadway version of the show, has told Lloyd Webber that she will reprise the role for the big screen.

Austin Shaw, who is co-producing the film, said: "Andrew would love Glenn to do the role and she has been approached. The pair spoke about it privately at this year's Golden Globes ceremony and she said she would be happy to take it on again. We are making the film with Paramount and it should be out in time for Christmas 2006."

The musical, which has lyrics by the Oscar-winners Don Black and Christopher Hampton, is based on Billy Wilder's 1950 film about the doomed romance between Norma Desmond, a fading star of the silent cinema, and Joe Gillis, an ambitious young writer. The film, which starred Gloria Swanson and William Holden, is regarded as one of cinema's finest moments.

Close was initially reluctant to transfer her performance on to the screen for fear of drawing comparisons with Swanson's acclaimed performance.

The five times Oscar nominee, whose credits include Fatal Attraction and Dangerous Liaisons, is now convinced, however, that she can bring something fresh to the role.

Her new-found love for the role is a blow for Barbra Streisand who had been keen to star in the film. Streisand, herself a double Oscar-winner, included two of the show's best-known songs With One Look and As If We Never Said Goodbye on a 1993 album.

Mr Shaw, who runs Lloyd Webber's Really Useful Film Group, said: "We were made aware by Streisand's friends that she was keen to take on the role but Glenn is the obvious choice."

Mr Shaw said that McGregor and Hugh Jackman were both in the running for the role of Gillis. Both are box office stars. Jackman, who won rave reviews in the National Theatre production of Oklahoma!, is regarded as the better singer. But McGregor, who is at present playing to packed houses in the West End revival of Guys and Dolls, is considered a bigger draw.

Close, who won a Golden Globe this year for her role as Eleanor of Aquitaine in an American television remake of The Lion In Winter, made the role of Norma her own when she opened the US stage production in 1994. The London production, which opened the previous year, had already begun to flag after a mixed response from critics and audiences.

Close's turn as the faded star took Broadway by storm and gave the show a new lease of life. It won seven Tonys, including awards for best musical and best actress.


Коротко по-русски для неспикающих :
- Фильм сниматься будет.
- На роль Нормы пригласили Гленн Клоуз.
- Барбара Стрейзанд давала понять продюсерам фильма, что она тоже не прочь сняться в роли Нормы, но ей отказали.
- Гленн Клоуз долго не решалась сыграть в этом фильме из-за возможных сравнений ее с Глорией Свонсон, но в конце концов согласилась.
- На роль Джо рассматриваются 2 кандидатуры - Хью Джекман и Эван МакГрегор. Джекман, говорится в статье, лучше поет, однако МакГрегор - звезда большей величины и может привлечь больше зрителей.
- Выход фильма планируется на рождество 2006 года.

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I don't know where the next thing [=great musical] is coming from. 15 or 20 years ago I thought that was going to happen once the Iron Curtain fell, that the country that produced Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, Prokofiev and Shostakovich was where we should be looking and where something would happen. But there's been 'sweet FA'. (c) Andrew Lloyd Webber
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