Mendes joins forces with BBC to make Shakespeare TV films
September 30th, 2010 - 5:54 pm ICT by ANILondon, Sept 30 (ANI): Oscar-winning filmmaker Sam Mendes is teaming-up with the BBC to bring four of Shakespeare’s history plays to television.
Mendes, who won an Academy Award for Best Director in 1999 for ‘American Beauty’, said he “couldn’t be more delighted” about making the films, the Mirror reports.
“One of my earliest introductions to Shakespeare was watching the plays on TV, and it’s terrific to have the opportunity to bring them to a new, wider audience,” the Mirror quoted him as saying.
The screen versions of Richard II, Henry IV part I and II, and Henry V will be shown on BBC2.
Mendes, who announced his separation from his wife Kate Winslet in March, is not the only Academy Award winner who will be working with the corporation. (ANI)
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