Some Well-Connected Movies
Much Ado About Nothing

Young lovers Hero and Claudio, soon to wed, conspire to get verbal sparring partners and confirmed singles Benedick and Beatrice to wed as well.
1993
William Shakespeare
writer
Richard III
The classic Shakespearean play about a murderously scheming king staged in an alternative fascist England setting.
1995
Ian McKellen
actor
Richard Loncraine
director
William Shakespeare
writer
Gods and Monsters

The last days of Frankenstein (1931) director James Whale are explored.
1998
Ian McKellen
actor
Wimbledon

A pro tennis player has lost his ambition and has fallen in rank to 119. Fortunately for him, he meets a young player on the women's circuit who helps him recapture his focus for Wimbledon.
2004
Richard Loncraine
director
Hamlet

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother remarrying the murderer, his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.
1996
William Shakespeare
writer