Modernizing Shakespeare is so hot for ’09. A few weeks ago we learned that “Twilight” director Catherine Hardwicke is tackling an update of the Bard’s “Hamlet” starring Emile Hirsch. Now The Hollywood Reporter brings news of a “modern-day makeover” of “Macbeth” titled “Come Like Shadows.” Little has been revealed about the plot or contemporary alterations of this second adaptation, though like the “Hamlet” update it is being labeled a thriller.
Pete Travis, who has just been hired to direct “Shadows,” further describes it as being “a bold, sexy addition to my slate of films. It’s a powerful, tragic morality tale about personal and political corruption. An awesome, epic story for our troubled times, its irresistible tension holds the audience in a vice like grip, its raw emotion will break their hearts.”
“Shadows” may not have the cool factor that “Hamlet” has thanks to Hardwicke’s involvement, but it does...
Pete Travis, who has just been hired to direct “Shadows,” further describes it as being “a bold, sexy addition to my slate of films. It’s a powerful, tragic morality tale about personal and political corruption. An awesome, epic story for our troubled times, its irresistible tension holds the audience in a vice like grip, its raw emotion will break their hearts.”
“Shadows” may not have the cool factor that “Hamlet” has thanks to Hardwicke’s involvement, but it does...
- 6/23/2009
- by Christopher Campbell
- MTV Movies Blog
- Originally set up with John Maybury in the driver's seat and with Sean Bean and Tilda Swinton in the lead roles, Come Like Shadows has resurfaced with Pete Travis (helmer of recent thrillers Vantage Point and Endgame) set to direct the pic. Scripted by Vincent Regan, Jennifer Lee Carrell and Nick Saunders, this is an adaptation of Shakespeare's "Macbeth", but it is designed to be user-friendly to a contemporary audience. The Hollywood Reporter reports that Smuggler Films' Patrick Milling Smith and John Hart will produce along with writer Saunders. Smuggler produced films such as Boys Don't Cry and You Can Count on Me as Hart-Sharp Entertainment. Who would you cast as MacBeth and Lady Macbeth? ...
- 6/23/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
Shakespeare's "Macbeth" will get a modern-day makeover in Smuggler Films' "Come Like Shadows," which Pete Travis is set to direct.
Travis, whose political thriller "Endgame" premiered at Sundance in January, describes the project as a thriller "about personal and political corruption." Vincent Regan and Harvard literature scholars Jennifer Lee Carrell and Nick Saunders wrote the script.
Smuggler's Patrick Milling Smith and John Hart will produce along with Saunders.
Repped by Wme, Travis also directed the thriller "Vantage Point" and the terrorist study "Omagh."...
Travis, whose political thriller "Endgame" premiered at Sundance in January, describes the project as a thriller "about personal and political corruption." Vincent Regan and Harvard literature scholars Jennifer Lee Carrell and Nick Saunders wrote the script.
Smuggler's Patrick Milling Smith and John Hart will produce along with Saunders.
Repped by Wme, Travis also directed the thriller "Vantage Point" and the terrorist study "Omagh."...
- 6/22/2009
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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