Amph Shakespeare in space

Which one of his plays could be adapted as Sci fi?

I would say Coriolanus and make the Volsican alinens.

Any other suggestions.

 

The Tempest would be my choice. That would obviously be more space fantasy than sci-fi, though.

 

The Merchant of Venus.

 

Wasn't Tempest the basis for Forbidden Planet?

Twelfth Night: instead of twins, clones.

 

I'd pick "The Tempest" as well. "O brave new world" and all.

I'd actually like to think that most of Shakespeare's plays could translate to other worlds . . . certainly the tragedies, if not all the histories and comedies. Medieval Japan is a world pretty different from Shakespeare's England, and Akira Kurosawa set "Ran" and "Throne of Blood" (King Lear and Macbeth) there.

Of course, that said, there's always the anthropologist who thought that Shakespeare's stories were universal, and who tried to tell the story of Hamlet to a hunter-gatherer tribe in the South American rainforest. As the story goes, the tribespeople laughed at him when he tried telling them about Ophelia's (!) death, because "water can't hurt you." Go figure.

 

Yes, it was.

 

Obviously this means I can make classic films.

 

"Prick us, do we not bleed? Wrong us, shall we not....seek revenge?"

 

Shakespeare In Love In Space

 

I think it was Chang who said that, in Star Trek VI, not Khan in Star Trek II.Khan quoted Moby Dick, not Shakespeare.

 

Rocket Romeo and Juliet.

 

Darn it, you're right! My bad. I had my Trek baddies mixed up there. I should've known something was up when I couldn't find that line on the Wrath of Khan's IMDB quote page.