Who is Scott Anderson and what is HE going to do with that bit of Shakespeare?
There should be a rule about WHO is and is not allowed to meddle with Shakespeare.
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I hope your joking mate. Shakespeare is held in far too much reverence, its not a holy text!
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sharewho the hell is Portia? I just read the play and dont remember a Portia? Have I gone mad?!
shareALL I KNOW IS THERE IS SOME VERY PRETTY WOMEN IN THIS MOVIE
shareAnd you need to take your finger off "shift" whilst typing.
This seems the weirdest cast for a piece of shakespeare I'd say I hope it does well but really I bet it will suck and may have an ending which includes blaring heavy metal..
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If Shakespeare isn't a Holy text its the closest you're going to get.
I just can't fathom casting this 'Sung Hi Lee' as Anne, it boggles the mind.
A certain degree of realism is required when adapting Shakespeare and that I think means one wouldn't cast a woman of asian descent in that role.
They've lost me on this one.
Yea, don't know about this Sung Hi Lee chic as Anne either. It's very, how can I say this, out of place? But we'll see. What I think is that they totally went modern for this story, races and all.
All I know is that Princess Elizabeth actress Daniela Melgoza is smooookin hot. She seems to be latina too (also non-caucasian)? But man o man who cares. She definitely came out of no where, hope to see more of her for sure!
You guys all need to take a pill. It's a movie for God's sake. Shakespeare is completely unaware of this and Sung Hi Lee is as hot as July asphalt. Why not put her in a substanial role where she gets to stretch her acting mucles? I'm sure old Willie wouldn't be the least bit upset by this, hello, 3rd Millennium remake of his dusty old play.
Lily Chai is hot as hell too. I think she plays the wedding guest.
Shakespeare? Holy? My ass!
Lily Chai is not hot as hell. I'll give you Sung Hi, but Lily Chai? Either she took an awful picture or you are seriously smoking some crack.
OR... you just have some weird Asian fetish muddying up your taste. That could very well be it.
And since when is a "wedding guest" a substantial role? I guess what I mean is, what even made you mention Lily Chai in this comversation?
I was talking about Sung Hi Lee having a substantial role and besides, Lily Chai IS hot. That's why I mentioned her. Look at her website. And no I do not smoke crack nor do I have an Asian fetish. Not everybody thinks every actress needs to look like Jessica Simpson, although I guess calling her an 'actress' is probably a slam against actual actresses.
But I still don't get how everyone holds William Shakespeare as being sacrosanct or something. I could almost see tears flowing with some of these postings. Lighten up guys, it's a movie.
Dude, I don't need to see a website to clearly see this woman is NOT hot. How on earth do you find her hot? What website are you looking at?
shareDude, I don't need to see a website to clearly see this woman is NOT hot. How on earth do you find her hot? What website are you looking at?
shareMan, this movie is going to blow. Seriously.
shareAll this bitching about the female cast is very edifying, but it still doesn't answer the original question: WHO THE HELL IS SCOTT M. ANDERSON?
"It shouldn't have been Edgar, it should have been Kim" -Stephen King.
Scott M. Anderson is an ambitious guy who was able to get funding to make a feature. He obviously chose material from the "public domain" arena to save a few bucks. He would seem to have a few connections or the production company has some pull because he bagged a couple of older names and why in the heck is everyone hating on the guy? It is a simple situation... if he is a USC grad, someone wealthy's son, an investment banker who read a couple of directing books, what difference does it make? The film hasn't even come out. I guess it's "Welcome to Hellywood... where no one is ever a 1st timer... no one gets a chance... and no one gets out alive!!!!" (Evil sinister laugh track inserted here)...
"This is Jack Burton in the Pork Chop Express, and I'm talkin' to whoever's out there."
NOt hating, just curious. It's not very often that someone with NO previous credits manages to snag a production deal like this. I was wondering who he was.
"It shouldn't have been Edgar, it should have been Kim" -Stephen King.
Amazingly enough anyone who can cajole B list actors and raise enough money can get in there... it's what you do once you're in that determines whether the ship sinks.
"This is Jack Burton in the Pork Chop Express, and I'm talkin' to whoever's out there."
He is indeed ambitious. He did indeed raise the money, independently to make his dream of directing a film come true.
shareHahaha, I just loved how I thought the same thing, and it's his first gig, he's directing, producing, and *starring* in it.
All I could think was "*someone* thinks highly of himself". Doesn't matter that it's Shakespeare.
Well, that is a little unfair. I would venture to guess that before Henry V, no one (at least outside of Britain) had ever even heard the name Keneth Branaugh. Of course, he was an actor in the Royal Shakespeare company, but he didn't exactly have a whole lot of film experience, and certainly had people raising eyebrows and saying "WHO exactly is making Henry V?"
... and Henry V turned out to be one of the most imaginative, watchable, and powerful film adaptations ever made from the Bard's writings.
Of course, this may end up coming out and sucking like nothing else on the face of the earth, but it may very well be brilliant.
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> no one had ever even heard the name Keneth Branaugh
I, for example, have never heard the name Keneth Branaugh.
I have, however, heard the name Kenneth Branagh, if that counts.
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I saw the trailer and this Scott Anderson, who gave himself the lead and the producer post and the director post, is not really charismatic.
He said in another thread that this was a low budget movie. You can't have a quality film which concernes Shakespeare when you run out of money imo.
And isn't that cast member Alisa Marshall supposed to be named Ailsa Marshall, a model who once snogged Gary Oldman so she could get into the movie business (failing hopelessly)?
Why should he not make a modern-day version of a Shakespeare play?
It was done with Hamlet and Romeo & Juliet. Besides, his acting and directing skills might be promising. It is not meddling with Shakespeare, more likely honoring Shakespeare; the fact that Shakespeares plays are continuously made into movies shows that Shakespeare is not being forgotten, but rather remembered, and that his work is still being appreciated.
In short, give Anderson a chance.
Why should he not make a modern-day version of a Shakespeare play?
It was done with Hamlet and Romeo & Juliet. Besides, his acting and directing skills might be promising. It is not meddling with Shakespeare, more likely honoring Shakespeare; the fact that Shakespeares plays are continuously made into movies shows that Shakespeare is not being forgotten, but rather remembered, and that his work is still being appreciated.
In short, give Anderson a chance.
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Found this on Basilisk films:
A 1986 graduate of the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, Scott Anderson has been a veterinary surgeon in Los Angeles for the past 20 years. A long-time Shakespeare fan, during the past 3 years he wrote, produced and directed “Shakespeare’s Richard III” – a feature film version of Shakespeare’s classic play, in a modern-day Los Angeles setting.
When not working as a veterinarian (or on other business ventures), Dr. Anderson enjoys spending time with his lovely wife Dr. Lisa Brevik-Anderson and their two exuberant sons, Paul (age 8) and Erik (age 4), as well as alpine mountaineering, scuba diving, and traveling.