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Brazilian Director Heads Towards Shakespeare
20-Jul-2008
Written by: Marshall Burns
Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles plans to make a big screen adaptation of “Love’s Labour’s Lost.”
Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles is going in a new literary direction, taking cues from William Shakespeare. The director started shooting Sound and Fury, a new TV series about a Shakespearean theater group who is in crisis. As well, the next movie he is planning is to be an adaptation of Shakespeare’s comedy, Love’s Labour’s Lost.
In an exchange of emails with Reuters, he said, “Shakespeare is a heavy drug. The more you read, the more you want to read. Each line has poetry, philosophy, a deep understanding of what we are.” His movie adaptation is based on the Brazilian adaptation of Love’s Labour’s Lost, by moviemaker Jorge Furtado, who is writing the script for this one.
The film is to start production next year and is set in New York as well as London. The story follows a Brazilian boy who gets a scholarship to study Shakespeare abroad with students from around the world. He falls in love with an Arabian student in the book. The TV show is to be based on Slings and Arrows, a Canadian program, reported Reuters.
The filmmaker came onto the scene in 2002’s City of God, about a saga of violence in the slums of Rio de Janeiro. He said of the TV series, “It’s a romantic comedy more about the actors than the plays, but it will have beautiful passages of Shakespeare works.”
The movie, Blindness, a drama about an epidemic that lays waste to a fictional country, is his most recent, which was praised at Cannes and is set to open internationally in September. The cast includes Julianne Moore, and the sickness leads to psychological blindness and is a disease that could infect countries and civilizations.
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