«Breaking News» BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Hollywood legend Glenn Close isn't heading into the sunset yet

Hollywood legend Glenn Close lost out to Olivia Colman’s Queen Anne in Film4 jewel The Favourite for the best actress Oscar — her seventh nomination without winning

Hollywood legend Glenn Close lost out to Olivia Colman’s Queen Anne in Film4 jewel The Favourite for the best actress Oscar — her seventh nomination without winning.

But the actress won’t let the disappointment hold her back. I can reveal that production will begin in October on her next big project: the long-awaited film adaptation of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Sunset Boulevard.

Lloyd Webber’s show was itself based on Billy Wilder’s seminal 1950 picture, which told the story of Norma Desmond, a delusional, faded silent era movie star, and her predatory behaviour towards an impoverished scriptwriter.

Wilder’s film, set in Desmond’s decrepit shadow-filled Gothic mansion, starred Gloria Swanson and William Holden, and is preserved as part of cinema history by the U.S. National Film Registry.

‘It’s happening at last!’ Close told me at a reception at the Armani boutique on Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills.

Paramount Pictures, the studio behind Wilder’s movie, have contracted British writer Tom MacRae, who wrote the book and lyrics for acclaimed show Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, to write the script for the new film. MacRae has been told to make old Hollywood a big character in the picture, which Rob Ashford will direct and choreograph.

It will be the second film using a score by Lloyd Webber to go before the cameras.

Close, pictured played Norma Desmond in Andrew Lloyd Weber's stage adaptation 

I can reveal that production will begin in October on her next big project: the long-awaited film adaptation of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Sunset Boulevard

Lloyd Webber’s show was itself based on Billy Wilder’s seminal 1950 picture, which told the story of Norma Desmond, a delusional, faded silent era movie star, and her predatory behaviour towards an impoverished scriptwriter

Director Tom Hooper is in the final weeks of shooting a movie of Cats for Working Title and Universal Pictures.

Although Ms Close didn’t take home the Oscar on Sunday, she has scored several wins throughout the awards season — the last being her best actress award for The Wife at Film Independent’s Spirit Awards last Saturday.

After the Academy Awards show, Close changed out of her 42lb gold beaded gown into a dress tailor-made for dancing at the after-parties — where she proved that she’s more than ready for her next close-up — and perhaps her eighth Oscar nomination.

‘It’s happening at last!’ Close told me at a reception at the Armani boutique on Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills

 

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Hollywood legend Glenn Close lost out to Olivia Colman’s Queen Anne in Film4 jewel The Favourite for the best actress Oscar — her seventh nomination without winning

Hollywood legend Glenn Close lost out to Olivia Colman’s Queen Anne in Film4 jewel The Favourite for the best actress Oscar — ...

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