We reported two days ago the news that Al Pacino was set to play King Lear in a new adaptation directed by Michael Radford. A little internet searching on the subject yielded another surprise… apparently, Anthony Hopkins is also tapped to play the more “sinned against than sinning” monarch. Strange that a 400-year old play should be subject to the weird Hollywood rule which states that there can never be Two Much of a Good Thing. Recent examples include the battling Alexander the Great movies (Oliver Stone vs. Baz Luhrmann), the two Howard Hughes biopics (Martin Scorsese vs. Christopher Nolan), two volcano movies (Volcano vs. Dante’s Peak), and two asteroid movies (Deep Impact vs. Armageddon). [Read more...]