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(Redirected from Richard III (2006 film)) 2007 American film

Richard III
film poster
Directed by	Scott M. Anderson
Written by	Scott M. Anderson
Based on	Richard III by William Shakespeare
Produced by	David Carradine Scott M. Anderson
Starring	Scott M. Anderson David Carradine Danny Trejo Richard Tyson Anne Jeffreys María Conchita Alonso Sung Hi Lee
Cinematography	Ruben Russ
Music by	Penka Kouneva
Release date	April 27, 2007 (2007-04-27) (World Fest Houston)
Country	United States
Language	English

Richard III is a 2007 crime drama film written and directed by Scott M. Anderson, set in contemporary Hollywood as a modern-day retelling of William Shakespeare's Richard III.

Filming took place over a three-week period in 2005, with post-production taking place in 2006. The film's world premiere was April 27, 2007, at World Fest Houston, where it won Platinum Awards for "First Feature Film" for Scott Anderson and "Best Film Score" for Penka Kouneva.

Plot

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Cast

David Carradine as Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham
Sally Kirkland as Queen Margaret
María Conchita Alonso as Queen Elizabeth
Scott M. Anderson as Richard III
Anne Jeffreys as Duchess of York
Richard Tyson as George, Duke of Clarence
Sung Hi Lee as Anne Neville
Natalie Burn as Natasha
Marco Sanchez as Richmond
Mike Muscat as Archbishop
Daniela Melgoza as Princess Elizabeth
Steven Williams as Lord Stanley
Navid Negahban as Sir James Tyrrel
Jennifer Sciole as Margaret
Miranda Kwok as Portia
Danny Trejo as Major
Annie Little as Herbert
Tim Storms as Lord Norfolk
Tyson Sullivan as York Subordinate
Dee Mas as The York Subordinate and Silloette Fighter/Dancer
Tammy Barr as Noble daughter
Luca Bercovici as Brackenbury
Kathleen Davis as Club Goer
Vincent De Paul as Lancaster FBI Guard
Oliver Goodwill as York Subordinate
Kym Jackson as Dukes Escort
Peter Jason as Ringside Announcer
TQ as DJ
Bruno Oliver as The Keeper

Accolades

In 2007 it won Platinum Awards for "First Feature Film" for Scott Anderson and "Best Film Score" for Penka Kouneva at the 40th Worldfest Independent Film Festival.

References

Meyer, Nicholas (24 February 2014). "Who Cares if Movies Are Historically Accurate?". The Forward. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
Connolly, Annaliese (2013). Richard III: A Critical Reader (illustrated, reprint, annotated ed.). A&C Black. pp. 159–160. ISBN 978-1472504968. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
Driver, Martha W.; Ray, Sid (2009). Shakespeare and the Middle Age. McFarland. pp. 42–48. ISBN 978-0786434053. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
Smith, Nancy Ganiard (30 May 2007). "All the World Is Scott Anderson's Stage". Palisadian-Post. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
^ Moorhen, Wendy (2008). "Shakespeare's Richard III: A new film production" (PDF). Ricardian Bulletin. p. 18. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
^ staff. "40th Worldfest Independent Film Festival". Worldfest Independent Film Festival. Retrieved 3 May 2016.

External links

Richard III at IMDb

William Shakespeare's first historical tetralogy

Characters
and events

1 Henry VI	Henry VI Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester Duke of Exeter Lord Talbot Duke of Bedford Richard, Duke of York Bishop of Winchester Earl of Suffolk Duke of Somerset (conflation of John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset and Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset) Earl of Warwick Earl of Salisbury John Talbot Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March (conflation of Sir Edmund Mortimer and Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March) Sir John Fastolf Charles the Dauphin Joan la Pucelle Margaret of Anjou Reignier, Duke of Anjou Duke of Alençon Bastard of Orléans Duke of Burgundy Jacques d'Arc Siege of Orléans Battle of Patay
2 Henry VI	Henry VI Queen Margaret Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester Richard, Duke of York Earl of Salisbury Earl of Warwick Cardinal of Winchester Duke of Suffolk Duke of Buckingham Jack Cade Duke of Somerset (conflation of John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset and Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset) Duchess of Gloucester Edward Plantagenet Richard Plantagenet Lord Clifford Young Clifford Margery Jourdayne Lord Saye Lord Scales First Battle of St Albans Peasants' Revolt
3 Henry VI	Henry VI Queen Margaret Richard, Duke of York Earl of Warwick Edward IV Richard, Duke of Gloucester George, Duke of Clarence Edward, Prince of Wales Lord Clifford Lady Grey Montague Earl of Oxford Duke of Somerset (conflation of Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset and Edmund Beaufort, 4th Duke of Somerset) Lord Hastings Sir William Stanley Earl of Northumberland Duke of Exeter Duke of Norfolk Earl of Westmorland Lord Rivers Edmund, Earl of Rutland Henry, Earl of Richmond Louis XI of France Bona of Savoy Prince Edward Earl of Pembroke Lord Stafford Lord Bourbon Battle of Towton Battle of Barnet Battle of Wakefield Second Battle of St Albans Battle of Tewkesbury
Richard III	Richard III Duke of Buckingham Queen Elizabeth Duchess of York Queen Margaret Lady Neville George, Duke of Clarence Edward IV Lord Hastings Lord Stanley, Earl of Derby Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond Sir William Catesby Sir Richard Ratcliffe Lord Rivers Marquis of Dorset Sir James Tyrrell Lord Richard Grey Prince Edward Richard, Duke of York Earl of Warwick Countess of Salisbury Duke of Norfolk Archbishop of Canterbury Archbishop of York Earl of Surrey Sir Thomas Vaughan Sir Christopher Robert Brackenbury Lord Lovel Ghost of Henry VI Ghost of Edward, Prince of Wales Lord Mayor of London Earl of Oxford Sir James Blunt Sir William Brandon Bishop of Ely Sheriff of Wiltshire Wars of the Roses Princes in the Tower Battle of Bosworth Field

On screen

Tetralogy	An Age of Kings (1960; TV) The Wars of the Roses (1965; TV) BBC Television Shakespeare (1983; TV) The Hollow Crown Henry VI, Part 1 Henry VI, Part 2 Richard III (2016; TV)
Richard III	The Life and Death of King Richard III (1912) Richard III (1955) "The Foretelling" (1983; TV) "King Richard III" (1994; TV) Richard III (1995) Looking for Richard (1996) Richard III (2007)

Sources

The Mirror for Magistrates (1559)
Holinshed's Chronicles (1577)
Richardus Tertius (1580)
The Spanish Tragedy
The True Tragedy of Richard III (c.1590)

Historical context

"Let's kill all the lawyers"
"Even a worm will turn"
The Tragical History of King Richard the Third (1699)
David Garrick as Richard III (1745)

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