As You Like It
Kenneth Branagh's long-discussed Japanese As You Like It will be released theatrically in the fall of 2006. Air-Edel's website notes the following:
In recent months Patrick has (briefly) returned to acting and singing! He was offered a featured role in Kenneth Branagh's latest Shakespearean adaptation of "As You Like It", an experience he thoroughly enjoyed.
Obviously, he's written the score for it too.
Advance screenings of the film (without completed music) indicate there's some Much Ado About Nothing-esque singing and dancing...not surprising since the play contains several musical interludes.
Here's a nice overview of the film and a brief interview with Kenneth Branagh about the approach taken to Shakespeare this time around:
"There are two central themes in the play -- one is romantic love, the other is getting away from the rat race... The late 19th century period in Japan was one in which they were going through the process of moving from an agricultural to an industrial nation and so they let Westerners in and also sent thousands of their own people to the outside world. Our world in the film is meant to revolve around one of those treaty ports which existed in the Meiji period... In many cases the people [Europeans] went native, would wear the clothes and even practice martial arts."
A lengthy (and illustrated) interview with Kenneth Branagh in the Telegraph reveals more details about the film.
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