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does anybody know how to get the script of this movie?

posted 18 years ago by machonhead
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Hi, I'm looking for the script of this movie, and I cannot find it! does anybody knows? Thanks

[–] 18 years ago

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If you search for "Almereyda" on Amazon's website, there is a paperback of "Hamlet" by Michael Almereyda that has a picture of Ethan Hawke on the cover, but the cover also reads "William Shakespeare's Hamlet." There is no other description of the text so it's hard to tell whether it's "Hamlet" as Shakespeare wrote it or as Almereyda adapted it.

[–] mazzyg 18 years ago

You can get a copy of it at Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0571206891/sr=1-10/qid=1138952220/ref=sr_1_10/103-5495183-6488642?%5Fencoding=UTF8

This is the screenplay and also contains a preface and director's notes by Michael Almereyda. It is not the playtext by Shakespeare, which can be easily found at your local bookstore :P

[–] keeleboy 18 years ago

Yeah it's based on a play called Hamlet, written by some English bloke called Shakespeare. You may have heard of him :)