As the Bard was writing, in 1591, the events he described were part of This, I suppose, was what Shakespeare intended.” Near-present tense and imagined it taking place yesterday rather than The process of writing, McKellen explained “we talked about it in the Wider history, beyond anything the King himself could have imagined. Richard III’s story was co-opted as part of a King was juxtaposed with the rise of the Third Reich in London, echoed in the One of history’s “what-if” scenarios a vision of the Home Counties beingĪdministered by the Nazis or Mosely’s Union of Fascists. Might have overtaken the UK.” It was a fantasy, a parallel world exploring The screenplay updated the story to a fictionalised England of the 1930s, “aĭecade of tyranny throughout Europe…when a dictatorship like Richard III’s Written by McKellen and Richard Loncraine, Was not a ploy to keep down production costs: the grimy, dimly-lit basement was Vast greying edifice constructed between 19 in Holborn, London. Scene was shot in a lower storage room of the empty Pearl Assurance Building, a ThisĪnne is more stilettoes and sunglasses than kirtle and chemise. The settings and costumes date the action to theįirst half of the twentieth century it is martial, modernist, Art Deco. But it is not Shakespeare as the playwright Of Anne, in Ian McKellen’s 1995 film version of Shakespeare’s Richard III. Or at least it is the actress Kristin Scott Thomas, playing the role
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