The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 19.0311 Thursday, 22 May 2008
From: Hardy M. Cook <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Thursday, May 22, 2008
Subject: Keira Knightley to Star in Film of King Lear
"Keira Knightley to star in film of King Lear"
By Anita Singh, Showbusiness Editor
The Telegraph Online
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1987321/Keira-Knightley-to-star-in-film-of-King-Lear.html
Keira Knightley is to star in a new film adaptation of Shakespearean tragedy
King Lear.
She will play Cordelia, the youngest daughter of the King, who will be portrayed
by Sir Anthony Hopkins.
Gwyneth Paltrow is tipped to take the role of Regan, Lear's treacherous middle
daughter. His eldest daughter, Goneril, is yet to be cast.
The $35 million film was announced at the Cannes Film Festival and will feature
epic battle sequences, according to its makers.
There have been more than a dozen adaptations of King Lear, most notably in a
1983 version starring Sir Laurence Olivier and Dame Diana Rigg.
This latest film will also be judged against a Channel 4 adaptation, to be
screened this Christmas, based on the recent and highly acclaimed Royal
Shakespeare Company production starring Sir Ian McKellen as Lear and Romola
Garai as Cordelia.
The play made the headlines due to McKellen's nude scene, which will be retained
for the television version.
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