MACBETH: Marion Cotillard is Lady Macbeth in Michael Fassbender Film

Marion Cotillard cast in Macbeth. The casting of Marion Cotillard in Macbeth answers the question of who will play the lead female role in the Justin Kurzel directed film. Marion Cotillard will play the role of Lady Macbeth in the upcoming William Shakespeare adaptation. Cotillard will be joined in the film by Michael Fassbender (who will be playing Macbeth).

On the people behind the scenes of Macbeth: “producers Iain Canning and Emile Sherman are producing…Studiocanal is financing the majority of the picture with Film4 and will handle international sales.”

On when production on the film will begin: “Pre-production is slated for the end of the year with principal photography to kick off in the UK in January 2014.”

On play Macbeth is based on:

Macbeth is a play written by William Shakespeare. It is considered one of his darkest and most powerful tragedies. Set in Scotland, the play dramatizes the corrosive psychological and political effects produced when evil is chosen as a way to fulfil the ambition for power.

The play is believed to have been written between 1603 and 1607, and is most commonly dated 1606. The earliest account of a performance of what was probably Shakespeare’s play is April 1611, when Simon Forman recorded seeing such a play at the Globe Theatre. It was first published in the Folio of 1623, possibly from a prompt book. It was most likely written during the reign of James I, who had been James VI of Scotland before he succeeded to the English throne in 1603. James was a patron of Shakespeare’s acting company, and of all the plays Shakespeare wrote during James’s reign, Macbeth most clearly reflects the playwright’s relationship with the sovereign.

Macbeth is Shakespeare’s shortest tragedy, and tells the story of a brave Scottish general named Macbeth who receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan and takes the throne for himself. He is then wracked with guilt and paranoia, and he soon becomes a tyrannical ruler as he is forced to commit more and more murders to protect himself from enmity and suspicion. The bloodbath and consequent civil war swiftly take Macbeth and Lady Macbeth into the realms of arrogance, madness, and death.

Shakespeare’s source for the tragedy is the account of King Macbeth of Scotland, Macduff, and Duncan in Holinshed’s Chronicles (1587), a history of England, Scotland and Ireland familiar to Shakespeare and his contemporaries, although the events in the play differ extensively from the history of the real Macbeth.

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Source: Wikipedia, Deadline