What Shakespeare adaptations would you like to subject me to this year?
"Angel of Vengeance: The Female Hamlet" -- In the tradition of “Turkish Star Wars,” the Turkish Hamlet
“The Bad Sleep Well " -- Kurosawa does Hamlet with Salarymen in Postwar Japan
“The Banquet" -- Hamlet during the Five Dynasties period in 10th century China
“Caesar Must Die " -- In a modern Italian prison, prisoners practice a production of Julius Caesar
“Gnomeo and Juliet " -- Romeo and Juliet with garden gnomes
“Hamlet (1990)" -- Starring Mel Gibson as Hamlet
“Hamlet (2000)" -- Starring Bill Murray as Polonius. Also Ethan Hawke as Hamlet
“The Journey to Melonia" -- A Swedish/Norwegian animated adaptation of The Tempest
“King Lear" -- Jean-Luc Godard’s story about a descendant of Shakespeare adapting King Lear after the apocalypse
“King of Texas" -- Starring Patrick Stewart as a cowboy King Lear
“Looking for Richard" -- Al Pacino’s documentary about his struggle to adapt Richard III
“Macbeth (2015)" -- The future director of Assassin’s Creed does Macbeth
“Macbeth (1971)" -- Roman Polanski’s much lauded adaptation of Macbeth
“Merchant of Venice" -- Starring Al Pacino as Shylock
“A Midsummer Night’s Dream" -- Animation legend Jiří Trnka makes a stop motion animated version of the play
“Midsummer Night's Rave" -- A Midsummer Night’s Dream at a rave
“O" -- Othello in a high school basketball court
“Othello" -- Starring Laurence Olivier… in blackface
“Ran" -- King Lear in Sengoku Japan. One of Kurosawa’s masterpieces.
“Romeo x Juliet" -- Romeo and Juliet as an anime
“Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" -- Tom Stoppard’s classic play about two minor characters from Hamlet
“Scotland, PA" -- Macbeth in a Pennsylvania fast food restaurant
“Shakespeare in Love" -- A romantic comedy about the writing of Romeo and Juliet
“She’s the Man" -- Twelfth Night in a high school soccer team
“Strange Magic" -- A George Lucas penned fairytale based on A Midsummer Night’s Dream
“The Tempest (2010)" -- Julie Taymor’s adaptation starring Helen Mirren as Prospera
“The Tempest (1982)" -- Prospero is a rich New Yorker slumming it on a Greek island
“Warm Bodies" -- Romeo and Juliet with zombies.
“Were the World Mine" -- A story of gay empowerment inspired by A Midsummer Night’s Dream
“Yellow Sky" -- A 1940’s western retelling of The Tempest