Meirelles’ Next is Shakespeare
Most of us have yet to see Fernando Meirelles’ Blindness, though that hasn’t stopped us from discussing the film at length, and now it looks like the Brazilian director is trading in one writer for another.
Meirelles’ next project will be a film based on a Brazilian adaptation of “Love’s Labour’s Lost” by Jorge Furtado, who is also writing the script. The story takes place in New York and London and follows a Brazilian boy who gets a scholarship to study Shakespeare abroad and during his foreign stint, he falls in love with an Arabian student.
“Love’s Labour’s Lost” is not my favourite of Shakespeare’s works, I’m actually not a huge fan of the Bard’s comedies, but the story seems to be only vaguely tied to the original and if one really breaks things down, it could be argued that every story is a derivative of Shakespeare. The dude was that prolific.
The material is a little different from what we’re using to seeing from Meirelles but the director has been quoted as saying that he wanted to work with some lighter fare and this seems to be the answer. Production on the film isn’t scheduled to start until next year so I expect we may get to see it late 2009 or early 2010.
