…I’ll go see this based on the cast alone: great to see so many familiar faces with the knowledge that Wheldon probably won’t kill any of them off this time! (Although I wouldn’t put it past him!)
It’s Whedon.
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It’s an amazing film. I managed to get a ticket for the last screening of the film at the Toronto International Film Festival last September. (Joss and many of the cast were there for the premiere… sigh)
Alexis Denisof and Amy Acker do some incredible physical comedy as well as the witty banter.
Nathan Filion is possibly the funniest I’ve ever seen him, which is something like a ten-foot bar to clear.
Joss’ direction is as great as you’d expect, especially because he’s shooting at his own house so he’s able to use all these details of the sets that he’s completely familiar with.
I fixed the thread title.
I loved the Kenneth Branagh version from a few years back. I’ve watched it many times.
Release date, to save you from going looking, is June 21. Ages.
I was wondering what that post meant!
Looking forward to this movie on many levels: love Whedon, love the cast, love Shakespeare, love the play. But the cast!
I liked Branagh’s version, too, but Filion HAS to be a better Dogberry than Michael Keaton. ANYONE would be!
My take was the the Brits in the cast were all great, but that Denzel Washington was the only Yank who gave a respectable performance.
I feel like Veruca Salt in Willy Wonka.
I WANT IT NOW!
Shakespeare doesn’t sound right with an American accent.
I’m hoping I’ll get over it.
Psst … if anyone happens to be in Toronto, there will be a special pre-release screening at the Shakespeare Association of America annual meeting, and unlike some academic conferences, the SAA is not particularly anal about checking badges. If you walk in confidently and look vaguely academic, you’ll probably be cool 
“A few years” being two decades. It’s from 1993. Feel old now?
Not a Joss Whedon fan. Not a Shakespeare fan. I guess that’s me out.
The performances in the trailer seem a bit awkward and stilted. The best Shakespeare I’ve heard (which admittedly is not much) has sounded way more natural than that. It’s no doubt tough to do, but they’re actors, they should be able to manage it better than the trailer suggests.
Funny, I had the opposite reaction; I thought that the language in the trailer sounded extremely natural, and I work at a big regional Shakespeare festival. Then again, I love Whedon, and I watched it in a happy haze.
Yeah, I would say that the movie wasn’t aiming for ‘natural’ language, but it underscored the beauty and flow of the words. It didn’t come across as awkward or stilted, especially after I’d been listening for more than three minutes.
(Not a Shakespeare geek. Huge Joss Whedon geek.)
Incidentally, I blogged about the movie after I saw it in the festival, including trying to sort out all the major characters and what other things I’d seen the actors in.