Some time in the past couple days, news broke that Joss Whedon is working on a film version of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and has, in fact, already finished principal photography for it. Being the busy guy he is, it was surprising that he had time for another project. Also somewhat surprising was the fact that no one knew about it yet. We did know, at least, that he is a fan of Shakespeare, having held the occasional Shakespeare reading at his home.
Amy Acker and Alexis Denisof receive top billing as Beatrice and Benedick, respectively, and the film is filled with actors we know and love from all corners of the Whedonverse: Nathan Fillion (Dogberry), Sean Maher (Don John), Fran Kranz (Claudio), Reed Diamond (Don Pedro), Tom Lenk (Verges), and Clark Gregg (Leonarto). But beyond the full cast list, we know very few details.
I'm sorry to say I've never read the play Much Ado About Nothing, I've just seen the movie version with Emma Thompson and Kenneth Branagh. But I'm very interested to see how Joss Whedon's version comes out. The one image on the website certainly has me intrigued. See the movie website here:
http://muchadothemovie.com/
and read about this news at Entertainment Weekly here:
http://insidemovies.ew.com/2011/10/24/joss-whedon-much-ado-about-nothing/
I'll have to keep my eye on this one.
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Definitely very excited about this! Joss is such a busy man (so are all the actors and those involved) and it just goes to show how passionate he is about his craft to pull off something like this.
I'll have to dust off my old Complete Works of Shakespeare and re-read Much Ado in preparation!!
I'm looking forward to that as well. I should definitely read it first though as well.
It should be interesting, in the very least!
I wonder how long it will take for the movie to be complete, and whether it will just be a limited release. Might be a while, I guess, before I can hope to see this thing. Oh well.
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