“Gore Vidal was the head of the judges and loved the movie,” noted the film’s producer, Michael Brandman. The comedy, which stars Gary Oldman as Rosencrantz, Tim Roth as Guildenstern, Richard Dreyfuss as the Player, Iain Glenn as Hamlet, Joanna Miles as Gertrude and Ian Richardson as Polonius, received generally strong reviews and even won the Venice Film Festival’s top prize over the odds-on favorite, Martin Scorsese’s “Goodfellas.” “What happens when you get older is that you feel freer and looser about defending or protecting your original text,” Stoppard said. “I felt by that time that I knew a little more about writing screenplays, though I still don’t know enough until this day, really.” “I knew enough to know that shouldn’t get too wordy,” Stoppard said. Had the Boorman-directed film come to fruition, Stoppard said, “it would have been a heavy number.”īut by the time he wrote the screenplay to “Rosencrantz” for the 1990 film version that was released theatrically in 1991, Stoppard had several film projects to his credit, including co-writing Terry Gilliam’s 1985 classic, “Brazil.”
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