Do as the Romans did, then overdo it again

http://www.boston.com/ae/movies/articles/2010/08/29/ancient_rome_spawns_modern_tv_and_movie_ventures__again__this_year_and_next/?page=2

CORIOLANUS (2011)

Ralph Fiennes makes his directorial debut with a modern-dress version of Shakespeare’s tragedy of a Roman general, a one-man war machine rejected by his countrymen in peacetime. Big mistake, Rome. Coriolanus seeks refuge with his former enemy, Aufidius, and plots revenge against the city — until Coriolanus’s formidable mother, Volumnia, hatches her own plan to stop him. Filmed in Bosnia, the movie outfits its cast with contemporary combat gear and weapons. Fiennes, as the prideful title hero, reprises a role he played onstage in London and New York. Vanessa Redgrave is Volumnia and Gerard Butler, no stranger to action roles, plays Aufidius. A 1995 film adaptation of Shakespeare’s most brutal Roman play, “Titus Andronicus,’’ directed by Julie Taymor, earned critical praise and an Academy Award for best original score. Fiennes’s project, too, has aroused intense interest, but the movie won’t debut until the Belgrade International Film Festival next March, and no US release has yet been set.

Thanks Alice!