The big challenge with adapting Shakespeare for the big screen is how to put a distinctive spin on it. Hamlet is drawn mad by this news and deliberates over revenge, upending his friends and family’s lives in the process. For those who don’t already know the basic premise of the play, Hamlet (Branagh), Prince of Denmark, learns that his uncle, King Claudius (Jacobi), killed his father as a conspiracy to get with his mother Gertrude (Christie) and usurp his brother’s title. It stars Branagh, Julie Christie, Billy Crystal, Gerard Depardieu, Charlton Heston, Derek Jacobi, Jack Lemmon, Rufus Sewell, Robin Williams and Kate Winslet. Hamlet was not a box office success, grossing just under $5 million on a budget of $18 million.Hamlet, directed by Kenneth Branagh, sees Branagh also adapt the classic William Shakespeare play in its entirety.Hamlet was the last major dramatic motion picture to be filmed entirely on 70 mm film until 2012, with the release of Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master.Blenheim Palace is the setting used for the exterior grounds of Elsinore Castle and interiors were all photographed at Shepperton Studios, blended with the footage shot at Blenheim.The play's setting is updated to the 19th century though retains Elizabethan English.The longest screen version of the play prior to the 1996 film was the 1980 BBC made-for-television version starring Derek Jacobi, which runs three-and-a-half hours.The film is notable as the first unabridged theatrical film version of the play, running just over four hours.

Writers: William Shakespeare (play) Kenneth Branagh (screenplay).Richard Attenborough -as- the English Ambassador.Simon Russell Beale -as- the Second Gravedigger.Billy Crystal -as- the First Gravedigger.Brian Blessed -as- the Ghost of Hamlet's Father.

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