Hitchcock.

In his latest video blog about film projects by great director that didn't happen, Mark Kermode drops an amazing bombshell ...



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4. Hamlet, starring Cary Grant
In the late 1940s, Hitchcock hit on an odd idea: he wanted to produce a modernized version of Hamlet set in England with Cary Grant in the title role. According to Hitchcock, the project “would be presented as a psychological melodrama.” The idea hit the rocks after Hitchcock’s studio, Transatlantic, announced the project and a professor who had written a modernized version of Shakespeare’s tale threatened a lawsuit.

Sounds rather like the Kurosawa or the Kaurismaki.