If Collider is to be believed, Al Pacino as King Lear is coming sometime in 2024. Normally I’d be excited by this. But, you see, you get jaded when you’ve been doing this for nearly twenty years.
You remember when you first heard about the idea…in 2009:
https://www.shakespearegeek.com/2009/02/al-pacino-as-king-lear.html
Seriously, has Pacino ever had it in him to play Lear? He’s been a great actor, no doubt – but has he ever really had that kind of range?
I guess I wasn’t too keen on the idea back then. But in fairness, I was still pretty new to the game.
Random references to this movie haunt my archives, such as this one from 2011:
https://www.shakespearegeek.com/2011/09/look-at-all-shakespeare-movies.html/
Which I like, in hindsight, because at least 4 of the movies mentioned did eventually come out.
How did I feel about it in 2015, where Pacino plays an actor performing King Lear?
https://www.shakespearegeek.com/2015/04/pacino-as-king-lear-why-else-would-i.html
I’m ok with that, though, because it means we get to watch Al Pacino perform some of King Lear.
Apparently, in those intervening years, I started to look forward to Pacino doing King Lear
So here we are looking ahead to 2024, thirteen years after the rumor started. Will this be the one? Will we finally see Al Pacino’s version of King Lear? Time will tell!
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