Lights… Camera… Drama

If I were a film director and I was going to remake Hamlet… I would not have it be just a remake of the play, that has been far to overdone.
My remake would be students attempting to remake the play for their theatre class.
I would have the majority of it  take place on the fields at Cambridge University.

                          Who wouldn't want their movie to be here? It's gorgeous
Also at their theatre classroom which is a perfect remake of the Globe theatre.

Even a fake thatched roof!

The traveling scenes will happen around Cambridge, mostly at Kings college, because it is beautiful.
And a few of the other scenes will happen at this beautiful building (as what the camera will pan into as the dorms)

And these dorm rooms for the girls:

And these for the boys:

For my characters I would have:
These people would be played by my main actors:  a director, a Hamlet, a Gertrude, a Claudius, a Ophelia, a Laertes, a Polonius, a Horatio, a Rosencrantz, and a Guildenstern.
These people would be played by random University students: a Ghost, a Voltemand, a Cornelius, a Reynaldo, a Orsic, a few Gentlemen, a Lord, a Fortinbras, a few ambassadors to Denmark.
The director would be Jennifer Morrison

For Hamlet I would have Liam Hemsworth:

I don't think this needs an explanation he is beautiful and amazing.

Next I would have Kelly Rutherford play Gertrude

Then I would have William Baldwin be Cladius

I would have Blake Lively play Ophelia

Then I would have Chace Crawford play Laertes

I would have Matthew Settle as Polonius

Then I would have Cody Allen play Horatio

Then I would have Paul Wesley play Rosencrantz

And finally Keegan Allen play Guildenstern

The basis of my plot line would be this is the theatre students rehearsal. The movie would span from their groups getting assigned to the aftermath of the final production.
I would have the character who plays Hamlet be in love with the character of Ophelia, and the character who plays Horatio (Hamlet's best friend and roommate) in love with the character who plays Ophelia.
Then I would have the first issue in rehearsal being that the character's who play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are fighting over who gets to pledge to which fraternity. And the characters who play Gertrude and Cladius dated each other and had a messy breakup where the character who plays Cladius cheated on the character who plays Gertrude with the director.

I would have the dialect when they are acting out the play be in Shakspearean talk, however, the characters talking between rehearsal, in class, in the dorms, et cetera be in modern English.

The movie would take place in modern day, and to rehearsal and class they would wear normal outfits, the characters who play Gertrude and Ophelia (who are roommates and best friends) will have a very cute and trendy style whereas a few of the extras will wear yoga pants and sweatshirts which the characters Gertrude and Ophelia will gossip about in their dorm room.

It will be a romantic comedy, with a love triangle, hilarious lines, and just drama.