Helen Mirren will play the unfairly banished sorceress, Prospera, in a new film adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest, which will be filmed in Hawaii and directed by Julie Taymor of Broadways The Lion King fame.
Here's the rest of the star-studded cast:
Jeremy Irons: Alonso, King of Naples
Chris Cooper: The sinister Antonio
Russell Brand: jester Trinculo
Alfred Molina: Stephano, the drunken butler
Ben Wishaw: Ariel (great choice)
Felicity Jones: Miranda
Djimon Hounsou: Caliban
Reeve Carney: Ferdinand, Miranda's love interest
okay, why does caliban have to be black? especially when nobody else is?
ReplyDeleteI know...I kind of thought the same thing...
ReplyDeleteLove The Tempest from '82 with John Cassavetes, Gena Rowlands, Susan Sarandan, Raul Julia, and Molly Ringwald.
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