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| Thursday, September 04, 2003 |
Two Shylocks, one Shakespeare: Shylock is not a box office opiate. So says director Michael Radford, who is shooting an adaptation of The Merchant of Venice this fall in Prague with Al Pacino. "There is a market for Shakespeare but it is not like the market for a film like Matrix Reloaded," Radford told the London Telegraph. Meanwhile, Star Trek's Patrick Stewart is working on bringing a modern-day adaptation of the famous play, about a financial agreement between two long-standing enemies -- Antonio, the merchant, and Shylock, a Jewish moneylender -- to the big screen.
Thanks to our friends at Nextbook for bringing this to our attention.
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