Eric Eisner, the son of Disney magnate Michael Eisner… is stepping up his involvement in the movie business.
Variety report that he has just launched a new production shingle titled L & E Productions and has quickly started work on Hamlet 2, a movie revolving around a drama teacher who decides to write a sequel to William Shakespeare’s Hamlet to save his school play.
Steve Coogan and Catherine Keener have both singed on the movie, the former likely to be the teacher. Nancy Drew director Andrew Fleming will helm from a script he co-wrote with Team America co-scribe Pam Brady with shooting set to begin on Sept. 17th in New Mexico.
Hamlet 2 will be one of three movies the production company want to make every year, budgeted at around the $5-25 million range. This movie is set to be budgeted at around the $10 million mark.
And the movie will make it’s money back too. If director Andrew Fleming can make something as ghastly looking as Nancy Drew and actually make $28 million worldwide (and it hasn’t left theatres yet, or opened in the U.K.) then making a return on this movie which actually has a better plot (albeit wafer thin) shouldn’t be too hard of a task.
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The Hamlet 2 thing sounds very interesting, but will it be set in the UK or the US? I can’t take another American high school flick where steroetypically stupid American youngsters get all arsey about “some ancient English guy”.