Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Hitchcock.

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



The World's Strangest blog has more:
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.

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