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However, Castle Rock Entertainment, agreed to finance the film and to Branagh's demands (filming in 65mm, complete control over the film, etc.) under two conditions: a star-studded cast for the show and a 35mm, abridged 2.5 hour version of the film for a wider release. Also, most studios were aware of the negative reviews and the commercial failure of Branagh's previously-directed film, (1994) and some of them would only finance the film if the content and the budget is cut to half. Trivia For more than a year, had tried shopping the project around major studios in Hollywood, but no studio was willing to finance a four-hour production, citing skepticism of the commercial viability of a adaptation to a late 20th-century audience.

In an incredibly convoluted plot-the most complicated and most interesting in all literature-he manages to (impossible to put this in exact order) feign (or perhaps not to feign) madness, murder the 'prime minister,' love and then unlove an innocent whom he drives to madness, plot and then unplot against the uncle, direct a play within a play, successfully conspire against the lives of two well-meaning friends, and finally take his revenge on the uncle, but only at the cost of almost every life on stage, including his own and his mother's.

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