Today, the equivalent might be pop-culture magpie Quentin Tarantino capping off his career with a pic that recycled the best setpieces from each of his earlier films. Meant to seem modern, the interpretation feels more out-of-time than ever, but holds our interest, thanks to a cast Lionsgate’s Grindstone Entertainment can leverage when it releases in spring 2015.Īn unusually original later work from a playwright known for borrowing his storylines from popular literature and history, then elevating them through his own extraordinary gift for language, “Cymbeline” mostly appears to be a case of Shakespeare recycling himself. With “ Cymbeline,” as before, he preserves the text even while updating everything else, incorporating handguns, motorcycles and a full line of Apple products into a play that barely has room for all its own intrigues.

One might expect the plottiest of Shakespeare’s plays to make the ploddiest of bigscreen adaptations, but Michael Almereyda - who turned Hamlet into a sulky Gen-Xer back in 2000 - brings a light touch to his second contempo refresh of the Bard.

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