Few people would think of Will Ferrell as being someone you’d cast in a great Shakespearean role, and he seems to agree, as he’s set to star in a comedy where he’ll send up that idea, according to Variety.
Sony Pictures has acquired the currently untitled pitch from Mosaic, with Will Ferrell set to star. David Guion and Michael Handelman will write the screenplay, which is set in the apparently highly-competitive world of a Shakespearean theatre company.
Now much more is known about the plot than that, but you can certainly see Ferrell having fun being over the top in some of Shakespeare’s greatest roles (I’m imagining Ron Burgundy meets Laurence Olivier)