HAMLET! FUCK YEAH!

[prof_pangaea]

He failed to win a nomination for a Laurence Olivier award because a bad back prevented him from completing enough performances, but Mandrake can disclose that fans of David Tennant will have another chance to see him in the role of Hamlet.

The 37-year-old Dr Who actor and the entire cast of the RSC production are preparing to make a film version of the play in June to record for posterity his portrayal, which was described by some as the greatest Hamlet of his generation.

i think the "greatest hamlet of his generation" comment is just possibly a bit much. but who fucking cares because THEY'RE RECORDING IT!! i eagerly await patrick stewart's claudius and the scene in gertrude's closet. oh yeah! meanwhile i am too amused by the headline: "David Tennant's curtailed Hamlet will rise from the grave". zombie hamlet sounds like a project that should already exist somewhere, surely?

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[cesario.livejournal.com]

it makes me want to write a sequel to hamlet where hamlet's ghost comes back and haunts fortinbras.

[neotoma.livejournal.com]

Zombie Hamlet sounds like it would be a fun production.

[arefadedaway.livejournal.com]

i eagerly await patrick stewart's claudius and the scene in gertrude's closet.

zomg YES. I love David, truly, cannot wait to see his performance, but Stewart!Claudius = FANGASM IN AISLE THREE.

[rhipowered.livejournal.com]

OH HELL YES.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

YES! YES!! YES!!! Not that I twitch every time that the RSC sends me something from their now-useless membership or anything.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

He was fabulous. Better than his MacBeth, IMO.

[rarelylynne.livejournal.com]

WHOO!!!!

*happy snoopy dance*

[prof-pangaea.livejournal.com]

that makes me want to write another sequel to your unwritten sequel where the ghost of each previous ruler of denmark haunts each successive ruler until the present day. or the future! yes, there should be space stations in it somewhere.

[prof-pangaea.livejournal.com]

mebbe you will be able to use it to get a discount on the dvd?

[prof-pangaea.livejournal.com]

i know i know!!

*does a happy shuffle along with ye*

something is rotten in the stte of denmark! oh wait, it's me. sry.

[prof-pangaea.livejournal.com]

it does, doesn't it? poor horatio would have limbs falling off and no one would notice. :(

[prof-pangaea.livejournal.com]

i anticipate tennant being quite good, but stewart being AMAZING.

[prof-pangaea.livejournal.com]

I AM SO HAPPY

[neadods.livejournal.com]

There is a skinny little letter from them that I haven't opened yet. Be nice if the membership proved good for something in the end.

(Actually, it did prove useful on the night. They didn't have my tickets waiting, although they promptly choked up a pair when I handed over my printed confirmation with member number. It wasn't until later that I checked and realized that the tickets weren't where I thought they'd be because they didn't *give* me the tickets I'd ordered. Yet another double booking.)

[rhipowered.livejournal.com]

BOOYAH

[jigglykat.livejournal.com]

OH MAN. That is so mine. It'd be silly of them not to! Don't they know they're sitting on a GOLDMINE?!

[prof-pangaea.livejournal.com]

i assume there was always the problem of making sure all of the actors would be available to film at the same time. mostly i am thinking OMGYEEEEEEEEES!

[infiniteviking]

YESSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!! Tennant and Stewart HOO-HAH!!

..and yes. Zombie!Tennant!Hamlet FTW.

[prof-pangaea.livejournal.com]

my Shallow Thought is that i hope tennant's still got sideburns when they do the filming. oh yes.

[infiniteviking]

Heeeee. >D

Re: something is rotten in the stte of denmark! oh wait, it's me. sry.

[iko.livejournal.com]

I'd watch it!

Re: something is rotten in the stte of denmark! oh wait, it's me. sry.

[prof-pangaea.livejournal.com]

i would too. "Oh, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt... oh there it goes."

*Dances*

[supasass.livejournal.com]

I'm so happy, extra happy because me and my friends fought to buy £30 tickets to see him and then the poor guy messed up his back! And then my mate managed to see him on his last week. I was gutted. Before today I couldn't think about it without being filled with jealous rage like boiling rage! But now it drains away and I simply can't wait to see and squee and see what I was previously denied, oh fuck yes! *resumes dancing*