He and Leigh had starred in a much lauded production of Macbeth in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1955 and Olivier was keen to adapt it for the cinema.īut the project was shelved in 1958, mainly because of financial problems, and Olivier later claimed there were no surviving scripts, only a "sketch". Macbeth was going to be Olivier's fourth cinematic adaptation of Shakespeare following successful versions of Hamlet, Henry V and Richard III. ![]() Olivier planned to cut out the famous "Is this a dagger which I see before me?" line to make Macbeth seem more heroic and in an early draft Lady Macbeth was to suffer a miscarriage, which does not happen in the play but did befall Leigh in real life. But now an academic searching for something quite different has stumbled upon 13 versions of the lost screenplay among papers and discovered that Olivier had some surprises in store.įor example, Olivier and his then wife Vivien Leigh were to play Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, but also two of the three witches.
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