Terrence Howard, Sanaa Lathan and Harry Lennix are all set to star in a new film version of William Shakespeare's Macbeth, set to start pre-production in Sept. 2013 on location in Jamaica and Puerto Rico. The film, to be titled Macbett, will also star Blair Underwood and Evan Ross and is written and directed by Aleta Chappelle, who is the first Amercan-American woman to direct a film version of a Shakespeare play. Howard not only plays the lead in the film, but is also the executive producer, along with producers Re'Shaun Frear and Kip Konwiser. As the filmmakers describe their new take on the play: "after a gallant military victory, General Macbett (Howard) encounters the...
- 3/3/2013
- by Sergio
- ShadowAndAct
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