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[tempestsarekind]

Young William Shakespeare TNT Pilot ‘Will’ Casts Lead, Shekhar Kapur To Direct

http://bit.ly/1OEq65M

(Deadline is marked as spam on LJ, so I hope this will get around it)

*runs in singing 'I hate everything about this paragraph, la la la'*

Elizabeth helmer Shekhar Kapur is directing the pilot

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[spacklegeek]

*shifty eyes*

...As long as they get the costuming right I'd probably watch this.

*sidles back into my trash can*

[tempestsarekind]

I mean, I probably would too, even if it's just to yell "NO" at the screen a lot. (My tolerance for that varies; I had to stop watching The Tudors six episodes or so into the first season because everything about it was giving me rage-spots in front of my eyes.) It just sounds so full of itself, you know? I don't need accuracy; one of my favorite movies is Shakespeare in Love! But all the "Shakespeare was totally hot and full of lustful temptations!" stuff is grating.

[spacklegeek]

It does sound extremely full of itself.

I kind of want the ~modern soundtrack to actually be rap & hip-hop (a la this), because that could be really cool, but I don't have my hopes up.

And I agree with the thread below. Let Marlowe be the seductive punk (punk, really? really?) who lures homeboy in, etc etc.

A bisexual Jacobean ménage-à-trois would definitely have an audience in me, is what I'm saying.

[tempestsarekind]

Hip-hop does have the insistence of rhythm going for it - like blank verse, in its way.

I think Christopher Marlowe: Seductive Punk ought to be the name of the next Marlowe biography. One of those ones with "modern" hot pink writing on the cover, splashed over an old portrait. Like this one:
http://static1.squarespace.com/static/538730aee4b0bfe6e4e0e04f/t/5641244ce4b030307600786b/1447109736057/?format=750w

And if anything is appropriate to the spirit of Shakespeare's works, it is a bisexual Jacobean menage-a-trois. I mean, Twelfth Night? The Merchant of Venice?

[a_t_rain]

I'd probably watch it too, although it does sound like it really ought to be about Marlowe instead of Shakespeare.

[tempestsarekind]

It does, doesn't it? I know Shakespeare is more famous and everything, but I don't understand why various historical media things keep trying to make Shakespeare into a sexy bad boy who spent all of his time in brothels. (or joined in on the Gunpowder Plot before fighting vampires, what are you even doing, Graham Holderness?) Probably most of what he did was sit around and write plays and do shareholder-type things once he became one, that one William the Conqueror anecdote notwithstanding.

Marlowe, on the other hand…

And I am concerned about the presence of Shekhar Kapur, since it's not like he has a great track record for telling comprehensible stories about the Tudor period.

[a_t_rain]

And Beaumont and Fletcher, for that matter! I bet a show featuring a bisexual Jacobean menage-a-trois would find an audience...

I feel like if there were any good gossip about Shakespeare, Ben Jonson would certainly have known it and told Drummond about it. (For that matter, I'd watch the heck out of a show about Jonson.)

[tempestsarekind]

I feel like if there were any good gossip about Shakespeare, Ben Jonson would certainly have known it and told Drummond about it.

Exactly! There aren't any famous stories for writers to build on, so it's peculiar to me that they keep trying.

I wonder if a bisexual Jacobean menage-a-trois could air on TNT, though…However, maybe that pilot would have stayed with HBO instead!