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While the script isn't even finished yet, Overture is announcing that it has attached Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke and Into the Wild star Emile Hirsch for a contemporary adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Ron Nyswaner (The Painted Veil) is writing. Dan... <a style="float: r...
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