Macbeth – currently in post-production
William Shakespeare’s classic tragedy.
A longtime staple in theatre, cinema, and classrooms, Macbeth tells a story about how ruthless ambition leads to destruction. Admitting a story is a staple and classic of stage and literature begs the questions of why make it again, and why make it now. A work becomes a classic or a staple largely because of the timelessness and universality of its themes. There is always a time to tell these universal stories, and there is always a perspective unique to each director.
The ironies faced with our production of Macbeth are discovering how to tell a story about ambition without it becoming too ambitious. In considering reference films and filmmaking techniques, inspiration is sought in 1970s cinema, an era where filmmakers were experimenting, giving voice to new ideas, and held in constraint to lower production budgets and mechanical effects. Without the aid of modern computer graphics, filmmakers had to tell stories in simple methods using the limited physical resources around them. Our goal is the same.
Our Macbeth will be one that explores the depth of the human struggle, the palace intrigue, the supernatural world, and the horrors man can commit. This is not a film that will feast on the grand armies of Scotland and England. This will not be a film of sweeping battle sequences and global tumult. Instead, this is a Macbeth about the corruptible hearts of men, the betrayals of trust, the integrity needed in leadership, and the need to act when evil comes into the home.
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