What do YOU think?...

[_s_m_i_t_h_]

If...

(and this is a very big If)

But if one was going to do an abridged version of Shakespeare's Macbeth with the characters dressed up as superheroes, who would you cast

Comments

[taojones]

I'd like to see Doctor Strange as Prospero.

[missrwildes]

Lady Macbeth: Poison Ivy!! w000t

[skewer324]

Lobo as Macduff. :)

Or, how about Julius Caesar?

Julius Caesar: Dr. Doom
Brutus: Bishop
Lucius: Quicksilver
Antony: Reed Richards (AKA Mr. Fantastic)
Cassius: Venom

[dolores_haze]

What a fun concept! Catwoman would make a more compelling--and in character--Lady Macbeth, although having Superman and Wolverine as the only figures strictly outside of Batman's cast might be too unbalanced.

[_s_m_i_t_h_]

wolverine especially, i think ... a bit of a stretch. looking for a righteous-vengeance character. Batman would be a good choice for Macduff, but who does that leave for Macbeth.

As for Superman, know what you mean. But I'm not so much thinking a Macbeth metaphor within a Gotham City world so much as a reimagining of the relationships between the characters -- different twists on them, different ways to communicate the relationships and the significance of the characters to, perhaps, an audience potentially largely unfamiliar with Shakespeare.

if you can think of a Batman-safe character for King Duncan, let me know. But Something about Superman as the king immediately communicates Goodness, and Rightness, and Wholsomeness -- and to fucking kill Superman would affect a lot of people more than seeing some old dude in a crown and robe get killed. You don't care about some old guy as much as you do Superman.

Same thing with Robin -- a good choice, I think, because we know that Robin and Batman are best buds, that Robin would die