It’s hard to shake the sense that Fassbender was born for this. It is built around a pair of cosmically powerful performances from Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard: using the word "definitive" in relation to Shakespeare is pointless, so let’s just say you wouldn’t want to follow them. Kurzel’s Macbeth, though, has been blessed with just about the rightest cast imaginable. None of this would have counted for much without the right cast. Kurzel and his trio of screenwriters, Jacob Koskoff, Michael Leslie and Todd Louiso, have done, repeatedly and courageously – and as a result, this endlessly studied 400-year-old piece of drama regains its power to mesmerise and shock. Iconic moments like the “double, double” incantations and the porter scene have been cut, along with the character of Donalbain, while previously familiar passages have been re-interpreted in unexpected, ingenious ways: if you thought the only way Birnam Wood could come to Dunsinane was via a squadron of soldiers with branches poking out of their helmets, then think again. But the play itself has been stripped down to its carcass.
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"From the producers of THE KING'S SPEECH comes the feature film adaptation of Shakespeare's play MACBETH about Scottish General Macbeth (Michael Fassbender) whose ambitious wife (Marion Cotillard) urges him to use wicked means in order to gain power of the throne over the sitting king."Ĭheck out the trailer in the video below.īe sure to follow T-Lounge on Twitter and visit our Facebook page.What’s left to be done with a play once Orson Welles, Akira Kurosawa and Roman Polanski have finished with it? In the case of Macbeth, the answer is plenty, providing you’re prepared to dig – and this new adaptation of Shakespeare’s Scottish tragedy from the Australian filmmaker Justin Kurzel tunnels deep.įrom out of almost nowhere – Kurzel’s only previous feature, Snowtown, was an almost unbearably tough true-life serial killer drama set in his native Australia – the director has conjured one of the great Shakespearean movies: it’s fit to stand alongside the Welles, Kurosawa and Polanski Macbeths, and is as unmistakably of its time as those three are of theirs.īoth the setting and language are un-updated: the action unfolds in Middle-Ages Scotland, and what words there are, are Shakespeare’s. Here is the official synopsis for the latest onscreen version of the dreaded "Scottish Play": Set for release in December 2016, many have already begun to wonder whether the film will revolutionize the business of game-to-film adaptions as we know it.
Macbeth will also prove to be a litmus test for the working chemistry between Fassbender, Cotillard and Kurzel, with Fassbender having brought both the actress and the director on board for the film adaptation of Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed video game franchise. Of course, this all makes sense, considering Macbeth actually existed: Shakespeare borrowed heavily from historical accounts and the 16th century's The Holinshed Chronicles – a largely circulated but inaccurate account of British history – about the 11th-century chieftan and military leader who ruled Scotland for 14 years, from 1040-1054.Ģ015 is proving to be a red letter year for Fassbender, whose upcoming turn as Steve Jobs in the eponymous biopic has received an overwhelming amount of hype. This particular artistic choice is radically different from other interpretations of Macbeth, which have re-imagined the great Bard's story of treachery, political greed and lust for power in places as far as Bollywood's Mumbai ( Maqbool) or in places as familiar as a fast food joint in the middle of nowhere, Pennsylvania ( Scotland, PA). The historical accuracy of Kurzel's Macbeth elucidates the viscera of the bloody and bloodthirsty Dark Ages - like a more realistic, non-magical Game of Thrones. While one of the most famous of William Shakespeare's monologues from Macbeth beings with "Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow," today is the day you can see the latest trailer for Michael Fassbender as the ambivalent and tortured Scottish king.ĭirected by Australian filmmaker Justin Kurzel and starring Oscar nominee Fassbender in the titular role, as well Oscar winner Marion Cotillard as Lady Macbeth, the latest take on one of Shakespeare's most psychologically incisive and dark tragedies brings us back to the basics.
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