Lear Rex set photos reveal first look at Al Pacino as King Lear plus Peter Dinklage as The Fool and Stephen Dorff as Poor Tom By Brian Gallagher For Dailymail.com Published: 22:12 EDT, 18 September 2024 | Updated: 22:28 EDT, 18 September 2024 e-mail 25 shares View comments Production is under way on the new Shakespearean adaptation of King Lear, dubbed Lear Rex, the first look of Al Pacino as Lear surfacing. Pacino, 84, was spotted on the Los Angeles set donning kingly attire on Wednesday, just over a month after filming first got under way, just after his 30-year-old girlfriend Noor Alfallah called him, 'an amazing father.
' Also spotted on the set was Peter Dinklage in full costume as The Fool, and Stephen Dorff as Poor Tom. While not spotted on the set Wednesday, the cast also includes Jessica Chastain (Goneril), Ariana DeBose (Cordelia), Rachel Brosnahan as Regan, LaKeith Stanfield as Edmund, Chris Messina as the Duke of Cornwall, Ted Levine as the Earl of Kent, Danny Huston as Duke of Albany, Matthew Jacobs as Duke of Cornwall and Rhys Coiro as Oswald. It's unclear how long filming will take place for, or if a release plan is in place for the film, written and directed by Bernard Rose (Anna Karenina, Candyman).
Production is under way on the new Shakespearean adaptation of King Lear, dubbed Lear Rex, the first look of Al Pacino as Lear surfacing Also spotted on the set was Peter Dinklage in full costume as The Fool Stephen Dorff was also spotted on set as Poor Tom Pacino .