"Although it's classical in its nature, there are lots of contemporary influences in terms of the music and how it's being shot - everyone will have mohican haircuts".
This is not the only film based on Macbeth in the works. There are rumours that Kenneth Branagh's next Shakespearean film will be Macbeth. I have only heard talk of it and do not know if this is a legitimate rumour.
Courtney Love will be playing Lady Macbeth in the Besson version. The film, Miss June, is an adaption of Shakespeare's Macbeth. Her co-star will be Scottish actor, Peter Mullan.
I was very surprised by this. I knew she had done some well received work in films before but can't seem to see her doing Shakespeare. Hopefully, we will all be pleasantly surprised. When thinking of Coutney Love as Lady Macbeth I think the comment that Alexander Woollcott made about Dorothy Parker fits here too.
"She is a combination of Little Nell and Lady Macbeth"
You might be surprised by some of the other women who have portrayed Lady Macbeth since the first filmed version in 1908.
One interesting portrayer of Lady Macbeth is Helen Baxendale. You might know her from her time on Friends where she played Ross's English wife. She also played Pandora Braithwaite in Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years. She also had her own English TV series, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman where she was a female private detective. Her portrayal of Lady Macbeth was in 1997 in which she co-starred with Jason Connery (son of Sean).
Another well known face to American TV audiences is Gloria Reuben. She played Lady Macbeth in Macbeth in Manhattan opposite David Lansbury. She, of course, is best known for her role in ER from 1995 to 1999. In this film, a group of actors are rehearsing for a production of Macbeth when events offstage begin to mirror what is going on in the play. The first clue that bad things will happen is that the actors in this production do not seem to believe in the old theatrical custom of never mentioning the name of the play in the theatre, referring to it only as the "Scottish play".
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