Remember when our Sean played Macbeth live on stage?
It was fabulous! And for years after there was talk of & proposals for him to star in a film version.
I'm so pleased to hear that there is finally some concrete news!
Word on this Monday past was that Sean finished shooting a trailer for film hopeful Enemy of Man (also titled Come Like Shadows at one point), a Shakespeare's Macbeth adaption by Vincent Regan, Jennifer Lee Carell, Nick Saunders and Pete Travis, with Sean once again playing Macbeth.
Other cast listed so far are: James D'Arcy (Cloud Atlas, Master & Command: Far Side, Nicolas Nickleby) as Banquo; Rupert Grint (Harry Potter films) as Rosse; Stephen Graham (Boardwalk Empire, This Is England, Pirates of the Caribbean) as Macduff; Charlotte Gainsbourg (The Science of Sleep, Melancholia, Jane Eyre) as Lady Macbeth (this part was originally tapped for Tilda Swinton); Neil Maskell, and Sam Spruell.
Here is the Enemy of Man IMDb page: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338258/
Updates on that page are sparse but now that I know something definite is in motion, I have added it to my Watchlist. Details are available on mobile & device apps. It has 2013 attached but that will likely change, hopefully next year!
The tagline so far: A war hero and the lure of ambition and decent into hell.
On the SBF Facebook page I posted 4 photo updates of Sean in armour that were kindly uploaded by Roopesh Parekh.
Here is the link to the original FB status: https://www.facebook.com/roopesh.parekh/posts/10200092460167296
Hope more production gets underway soon, can't wait to see the finished film!!!
Sean's stage Macbeth photos courtesy of The Compleat Sean Bean
Written by Donna DeBoer (@DRLDeBoer on Twitter)