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Article: The screenplay's the thing; The work of Shakespeare is making ideal movie material almost 400 years after the great man died. SIOBHAN SYNNOT finds out why Hollywood has the Bard on the brain.(Features)
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- Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
- Article date:
- January 29, 1999
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CONVINCING Hollywood studio bosses that your fabulous film idea will make them millions is not the easiest part of being a movie producer.
Add to that the fact that your scriptwriter has been dead for nearly 400 years and you would think clinching a deal was out of the question.
Unless, that is, your writer is William Shakespeare.
The Bard's language may be lost on many people in the 20th century, but his comments on society are still as relevant today as they were hundreds of years ago. The studios behind Mel Gibson's Hamlet and Leonardo ...