Post by sherlew (Ret) on Jun 6, 2009 14:36:01 GMT -6
Via Doctor Who Online's newspage
(I've posted some more Doctor Who related news, in the Who North Forums)
Tennant's Hamlet heads to BBC2
News Dated: 29/5/2009
David Tennant is bringing his Hamlet to the screen.
Tennant famously played the Danish prince as part of a Royal Shakespeare Company ensemble at Stratford and in the West End.
The entire cast from that production will be joining him, including Patrick Stewart as Claudius, Penny Downie as Gertrude, Mariah Gale as Ophelia and Edward Bennett as Laertes. (Mr Bennett filled in for Tennant several times when the actor suffered severe back pain and was unable to perform.).
Gregory Doran, who staged the play for the RSC, will shoot the film version on location. 'He wants to open it out like a proper film,' an associate working on the Hamlet film project told me.
Doran's stage production became a phenomenon and every night in Stratford and London there were people queuing around the block for returns.
The joint RSC/BBC production will be shown first on BBC2 and there are plans being discussed for it to be released on DVD.
Dr Who is still immensely popular in the U.S. and elsewhere, so some foreign distributors might decide to acquire rights to give Hamlet a proper release.
As BBC2 controller Janice Hadlow noted, 'it's a wonderful opportunity to bring one of the great stage successes of last year to a wider audience'. There's Hamlet fever all over town, as Jude Law begins preview performances tonight, playing the Prince of Denmark at Wyndham's theatre, as part of the Donmar's West End season.
[Source: Daily Mail]
[Glad they're filming this. Really do hope that it's picked up over here in the U.S. soon.]
(I've posted some more Doctor Who related news, in the Who North Forums)
Tennant's Hamlet heads to BBC2
News Dated: 29/5/2009
David Tennant is bringing his Hamlet to the screen.
Tennant famously played the Danish prince as part of a Royal Shakespeare Company ensemble at Stratford and in the West End.
The entire cast from that production will be joining him, including Patrick Stewart as Claudius, Penny Downie as Gertrude, Mariah Gale as Ophelia and Edward Bennett as Laertes. (Mr Bennett filled in for Tennant several times when the actor suffered severe back pain and was unable to perform.).
Gregory Doran, who staged the play for the RSC, will shoot the film version on location. 'He wants to open it out like a proper film,' an associate working on the Hamlet film project told me.
Doran's stage production became a phenomenon and every night in Stratford and London there were people queuing around the block for returns.
The joint RSC/BBC production will be shown first on BBC2 and there are plans being discussed for it to be released on DVD.
Dr Who is still immensely popular in the U.S. and elsewhere, so some foreign distributors might decide to acquire rights to give Hamlet a proper release.
As BBC2 controller Janice Hadlow noted, 'it's a wonderful opportunity to bring one of the great stage successes of last year to a wider audience'. There's Hamlet fever all over town, as Jude Law begins preview performances tonight, playing the Prince of Denmark at Wyndham's theatre, as part of the Donmar's West End season.
[Source: Daily Mail]
[Glad they're filming this. Really do hope that it's picked up over here in the U.S. soon.]
