Glenn Close could be heading to the West End in a new production of the hit musical version of Sunset Boulevard, according to its writer Andrew Lloyd Webber.

The Fatal Attraction star played the part of Norma Desmond, a faded star of the silent screen era, in the original US version of the musical which is based on a classic 1950 film.

Lloyd Webber told The Stage there is a “strong probability” the show will be put on at the London Coliseum, which is home to the English National Opera and which recently hosted Sweeney Todd starring Emma Thompson.

Glenn Close and Andrew Lloyd Webber at a party for the Broadway production of Sunset Boulevard in 1994
Glenn Close and Andrew Lloyd Webber at a party for the Broadway production of Sunset Boulevard in 1994 (Luc Novovitch/AP)

He said: “Glenn wants to do it and I said to her that if she really wants to, we should get on with it.”

The original film is regarded as a cinematic classic. It famously opens with the body of screenwriter Joe Gillis floating in a swimming pool, before a series of flashbacks explain events leading up to his death at Desmond’s Hollywood mansion.

Glenn Close at the opening of Sunset Boulevard in LA in 1993
Glenn Close starred in the original US version of the musical (Reed Saxon/AP)

It received 11 Oscar nominations and won three for art directing, music and writing.