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Hardwicke Replaces Vampires with Emile Hirsch and 'Hamlet'
Filed under: Classics », Drama », Casting », Scripts », Remakes and Sequels »
The Shakespeare adaptations, they just keep a-coming! On the heels of two King Lear pics, two wild re-dos of Macbeth, and Julie Taymor taking on The Tempest, Catherine Hardwicke has decided to jump on the bardwagon ... now that she's done with those PG vampires. Luckily, she's not crazy enough to take on Taymor and make it three dueling adaptations. The Hollywood Reporter posts that she'll helm a modern take on Hamlet, with Emile Hirsch starring.It seems that Hirsch helped conceive the idea, which Ron Nyswaner (Philadelphia scribe) will adapt, taking the themes of Hamlet and throwing them into contemporary America (again). Young Hamlet will have to decide whether he should kill his uncle and avenge his father's death. In other words, it sounds just like Ethan Hawke's Hamlet without the corporate intrigue. Milk producers Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen are whipping this up, and they say their "goal is to present the story as a suspense thriller. We want to make it exciting and accessible for an audience today." Taking into account Hardwicke's track record, I wonder -- all-age thriller, or Hamlet for the teen girl crowd?
Cinematical Seven: Good Ideas for Bad Shakespeare Sequels
Filed under: Comedy », Cinematical Seven », Remakes and Sequels »
(#7 added in, somehow it got lost between Notepad and Blogsmith. Sorry everyone.)
This sexy sequel to Shakespeare's bitter Trojan satire Troilus and Cressida finds the heroine living the life of a carefree and single Greek woman. She's not unfaithful, she's choosy – and why shouldn't she be when she has her pick of ripped warriors the likes of which 300 hasn't seen? Of course, this being Hollywood, she will eventually realize she loved Troilus all along – and he'll forgive her, buy her a really expensive apartment, and happily fund her addiction to expensive sandals.
King Lear Returns! With Keira Knightley, Anthony Hopkins, and Gwyneth Paltrow?!
Filed under: Classics », Drama », Casting »
William Shakespeare. He's the guy to go to for stories, either as old-English recreations or complete reimaginings. We've had a million tales of Romeo and Juliet and other classics like Macbeth, Hamlet, and A Midsummer Night's Dream. We've gotten a stunning look into pulpy Will with Julie Taymor's Titus. We're still not getting a big-screen Coriolanus (argh!), but we are getting more King Lear.The Telegraph reports that a new $35 million feature adaptation of the famous play has been announced at Cannes. Anthony Hopkins (who happened to play Titus in Taymor's film) will play King Lear, Keira Knightley is set to play his youngest daughter, Cordelia, and Gwyneth Paltrow has been tipped to become Regan, the middle sister. (Goneril, the oldest, hasn't been cast yet.) Talk about a sweet Shakespeare cast! This will pit Hopkins against Ian McKellen's work in a Channel 4 adaptation of the play (one that has Sir Ian in the buff), but I imagine he'll hold his own quite nicely.
If you need a Lear refresher -- this is the tale about King Lear's decision to divide his kingdom amongst his three daughters -- the size of each split determined by how wonderfully they praise their father. Cordelia refuses to continue the dishonest flattery, and gets disowned. Not surprisingly, her crappy sisters become cold to their supposedly cherished father, and Lear begins to see the error of his ways. The adaptation is said to feature "epic battle sequences" of the wars that follow.
I'm digging the cast so far, but who should play Goneril? Julianne Moore?
Review: She's the Man
Filed under: Comedy », Sports », Theatrical Reviews », Dreamworks », Remakes and Sequels »
We'll never know if Shakespeare would have
appreciated She's the Man, an update of his play Twelfth
Night: Or What You Will reset in teen sports comedy land. It is a good bet, at least, he's not rolling in his
grave about it, at least no more than Ovid and Chaucer, among others, were rolling in theirs during the Elizabethan
era, when the Bard put the poet in poetic license with his own reworking of classics like Pyramus and Thisbe
(as Romeo and Juliet) and The Knight's Tale (as The Two Noble Kinsmen). Twelfth
Night was itself somewhat a variation of his own The Comedy of Errors, an early title based rather
faithfully on Plautus' Menaechmi.
The works of William Shakespeare remain one of the rare arguments
in favor of remakes these days, as repeat after rehash after revival is met with great public disdain. There was little
plot development he didn't lift from some prior story, but his genius was in how he told, not what he told, and it is
the language of his writing that has carried distinction over time. It is therefore ironic that modern versions of his
plays, in turn, inherit a sort of credibility by making a legacy out of the action.
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