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Pete Travis is Set to ‘Come Like Shadows’

Originally set up with John Maybury in the driver’s seat and with Sean Bean and Tilda Swinton in the lead roles, Come Like Shadows has resurfaced with Pete Travis (helmer of recent thrillers Vantage Point and Endgame) set to direct the pic.

Originally set up with John Maybury in the driver’s seat and with Sean Bean and Tilda Swinton in the lead roles, Come Like Shadows has resurfaced with Pete Travis (helmer of recent thrillers Vantage Point and Endgame) set to direct the pic.

Scripted by Vincent Regan, Jennifer Lee Carrell and Nick Saunders, this is an adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Macbeth”, but it is designed to be user-friendly to a contemporary audience. The Hollywood Reporter reports that Smuggler Films’ Patrick Milling Smith and John Hart will produce along with writer Saunders. Smuggler produced films such as Boys Don’t Cry and You Can Count on Me as Hart-Sharp Entertainment.

Who would you cast as MacBeth and Lady Macbeth? 

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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