ANNA AND THE APOCALYPSE Director John McPhail To Helm a Lady Macbeth YA Musical
Amazon Studios is set to produce an untitled Lady Macbeth YA musical that will be helmed by Anna and the Apocalypse director John McPhail. Channing Tatum and Scooter Braun are attached as producers.
The script will be written by S.J. Inwards and all we know about the story so far is that it will center on “a teenage girl who grapples with her own morality as she contends with the dreadful consequences of her ambition.”
The report goes on to say that the movie “takes its cues from Lady Macbeth, one of literature’s most prominent characters and a key figure in William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the tale of a Scottish general who murders his way into kingship while descending into madness from guilt and belief in a prophecy told by witches. Lady Macbeth is his wife, a calculating woman who prods her husband into murder and war.”
I loved Anna and the Apocalypse, it was such a fine and charming zombie Christmas musical. I hope they bring that same level of charm to this Lady Macbeth musical. I’m curious to see what exactly they are planning.
Source: THR