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L+E Productions is proud to announce that Hamlet 2 has been selected to screen during the upcoming Sundance Film Festival.
Hamlet 2 will be part of the festival’s prestigious Premiers category that showcases the diversity of contemporary cinema, includes the latest work from established directors and showcases world premieres of highly anticipated films. Hamlet 2 is the first L+E Productions firm to be featured at Sundance.
Sundance takes place between January 17 and 27, 2008 in Park City, Utah and is the largest independent cinema festival in the United States.
Watch Hamlet 2 at Sundance
- Monday, January 21, 5:30 pm - Library
- Thursday, January 24, 7:30pm - Broadway 6
- Friday, January 25, 1:30pm - Yarrow (Press & Industry)
Click here to purchase tickets. Open ticket sales are from 1/18 to 1/27.
| Title | HAMLET 2 |
| Director | Andrew Fleming |
| Producers | Leonid Rozhetskin Eric Eisner Aaron Ryder |
| Executive Producers | Albert Berger Ron Yerxa |
| Writers | Andrew Fleming Pam Brady |
| Cast | Steve Coogan |
| Genre | Comedy |
| Status | Post-Production |
Synopsis
From the writer of ‘South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut’, and “Team America World Police,” comes Hamlet 2 starring comedy genius Steve Coogan. Hamlet 2 is one of the most outrageously funny stories in years. Hamlet 2 is brought to you by the producers of’ ‘Little Miss Sunshine’ and the director of “Nancy Drew” and “The Craft.”
Dana Marsczh (Steve Coogan) is an actor. Well, he was an actor, and an absolutely terrible one at that. After squeezing his way into a handful of god-awful blink-and-you-miss-it TV roles, commercials and infomercials as a young man, we join Dana a little further down the line as the drama teacher at West Mesa High in Tucson Arizona. Whatever Dana lacks in talent, he frantically tries to make up with his ludicrously ambitious passion. With his last disastrous stage adaptation (‘Erin Brockovich’’) crucified as usual by the school paper’s fearsome 13 year old critic Noah, Dana is reduced to a blubbering wreck. But as Dana feels like he has nothing left to give, Noah inspires Dana to write something new… Something original…
West Mesa High is certainly not known for its drama program and only 2 students actually attend Dana’s classes. But this year, due to an asbestos scare in a part of the school, computing, shop and ceramic classes are all cancelled, and Dana by default finally has a full class to teach, and an ensemble to work with. But they are not actors, nor do they want to be, so in a comedy twist on movies such as ‘Dead Poets Society’, ‘Dangerous Minds’ and ‘Mr. Holland’s Opus’, Dana pulls out all the stops to mould this ramshackle bunch into a talented group of actors for his new original play: ‘HAMLET 2’.
Under the impression that the original Hamlet was a bit of a ‘downer’, Dana’s ambition was to give the characters of Shakespeare’s classic the chance to redeem themselves. “Everybody deserves a second chance” is Dana’s mission, as he justifies the inclusion of a time-machine in the play, to allow Hamlet to go back in time and prevent Gertrude from drinking the poison, and to stop Ophelia from drowning. Oh, and lets not forget that Dana has recreated the sequel to this tragedy as a musical.
With the whole of Tucson banging the doors down to get into opening night, and press from all over the country reporting on this extraordinary event, soon all hell breaks loose. But despite it all – the show must go on.
Hilarious dialogue on every page, outrageous sight-gags and pratfalls throughout, and even a little room for romance, Hamlet 2 is certainly going to be an instant classic that would make Shakespeare proud.