'Lear Rex' - 10 Big Stars Join Al Pacino & Jessica Chastain for Film Adaptation of Shakespeare's 'King Lear'!
Lear Rex is coming, and a ton of stars are attached!
Ariana DeBose, Rachel Brosnahan, and LaKeith Stanfield are all set to appear in the film adaptation of Shakespeare’s King Lear, Deadline reports.
Peter Dinklage, Chris Messina, Ted Levine, Danny Huston, Matthew Jacobs, Rhys Coiro and Stephen Dorff are all joining Al Pacino and Jessica Chastain in Bernard Rose’s production.
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Barry Navidi is the producer, and he previously worked with Al Pacino on The Merchant of Venice, Wilde Salomé, Salomé and Modi.
Principal photography will begin on August 12 in Los Angeles.
Here’s a plot summary; “In Lear Rex, an aging King divides his land between his three daughters to prevent future conflict. But he rejects the young daughter who loves him and places his trust in her malevolent sisters, who strip him of his power and condemn him to a wretched wasteland of horror and insanity. With Pacino and Chastain set to play King Lear and Goneril respectively, DeBose will star as Cordelia, Brosnahan as Regan, Dinklage as the Fool, Huston as Albany, Messina as Cornwall, Stanfield as Edmund, Levine as Kent, Jacobs as Gloucester, Coiro as Oswald and Stephen Dorff as Poor Tom.”
The director said in a statement: “It is enormously exciting to get the opportunity to work with this extraordinary cast that Al, Barry and Sharon have put together to tackle this radical, but accessible adaptation of Shakespeare’s greatest play.”
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