LONDON, Feb. 26 (UPI) -- A planned film version of William Shakespeare's play "King Lear," starring Welsh actor Anthony Hopkins, was scrapped, reportedly for economic reasons.
Hopkins was to portray the troubled monarch, while Gwyneth Paltrow, Keira Knightley and Naomi Watts were to have played his daughters in the $36 million-budgeted movie, which was announced at last year's Cannes Film Festival in France.