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Ian McKellen first became intrigued with the idea of bringing a new interpretation of RICHARD III to the screen while still thrilling theatre audiences with his performance in the Royal National Theatre's world tour of the play.
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- Richard III
- Tower of London
- Looking For Richard
- The White Queen
- The Hollow Crown
- The Lost King
- A Wronged King?
This joint project between French filmmaker André Calmettes and American playwright James Keane resulted in a 55-minute silent film that adapted Shakespeare’sRichard III for the silver screen. It was lost, but rediscovered in 1996 and is believed to be the oldest American feature-length film and the first feature film adaptation of Shakespeare. The...
Tower of London is a black-and-white film. It follows the Shakespearean view of Richard III as he works with an executioner named Mord to eliminate rival claimants to the throne. On the death of his brother he becomes King Richard III, his only remaining rival being the exiled Henry Tudor. The part of Richard is played in Tower of London by Basil R...
Part documentary, part recording of portions of Shakespeare’s Richard III, this production was Al Pacino’s directorial debut, and also saw him play the character Richard III. The aim was to lead an audience through the plot and themes of Shakespeare’s play with scenes woven through the narrative in order to increase the play’s accessibility.
The White Queen is a BBC serialisation of Philippa Gregory’s novels in The Cousins’ War series. It covers the Wars of the Roses and offers the first more positive portrayal of Richard III in our list so far. In this interpretation, Richard is not blamed for the deaths of the Princes in the Tower, though he is positioned as planning to marry his nie...
Shown on the BBC in two series, the first focusing on Shakespeare’s Richard II to Henry V, and the second on the Wars of the Roses, The Hollow Crownreturned to a more traditional Shakespearean portrayal of Richard III. The depiction of Richard passed up an opportunity to reasonably represent his scoliosis. Richard III was played by Benedict Cumberb...
The Lost Kingtells the story of Philippa Langley, the woman who was the driving force behind the discovery of Richard’s lost grave in Leicester in 2012. As Philippa searches for evidence of the precise location of Richard’s grave, her internal monologue is presented to viewers by Richard III. This is perhaps the most positive presentation of Richar...
Of the ten portrayals of Richard III on this list, all but two are negative, mostly following Shakespeare’s dramatic presentation. The ages of the actors listed when they played Richard ranges from 26 to 62. The average is 47 years old. For a man who died aged 32, that suggests the Richard III we see on film is most often far removed from the real ...
A Screenplay Written by Ian McKellen & Richard Loncraine.
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This play has been one of Shakespeare's most popular, entirely because of the evil brilliance of its villain hero, Richard Duke of Gloucester, later King Richard III. Inheriting the Tudor blackening of the king whom Henry VII overthrew, Shakespeare turned him into the evil genius epitomising the vices that led to the self-destruction of the ...
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Jan 12, 2022 · Zach Baylin wrote the script for director Reinaldo Marcus Green’s film, which opened November 19 in theaters and on HBO Max after playing the Telluride, BFI London, Chicago and AFI Fest among...
