Other adaptations of Shakespeare's story to be filmed include Franco Zeffirelli's 1986 film of Verdi's OtelloRosenthal, 2007, pp.176-177 and the 1956 Jubal which resets the story as a Western, centered on the Cassio character.Brode, 2000, p.173. The play was abridged to 30 minutes by Leon Garfield, and produced with cel animation for the TV series Shakespeare: The Animated Tales.Holland, 2007, p.43. Tim Blake Nelson's basketball-themed teen drama O reset the story at an elite boarding school. The similarity of the film's ending to the Columbine massacre, which happened while the film was being edited, delayed its release for over two years, until August 2001.Rosenthal, 2007, pp.180-181. A British TV adaptation by Andrew Davies, screened in 2001, re-set the story among senior officers of the Metropolitan Police.Rosenthal, 2007, pp.182-183. And the first decade of the 21st-Century saw two non-English language film adaptations: Alexander Abela's French Souli set the story in a modern-day Madagascan fishing village, and Vishal Bhardwaj's Hindi Omkara amidst political violence in modern Uttar Pradesh.Rosenthal, 2007, pp.184-185 & 188-191. The 1997 Malayalam movie Kaliyattam is an adaptation set against the backdrop of Theyyam artform of Kerala. The 2024 Bengali movie Athhoi is an adaptation set against a fictional town of Vinsura in West Bengal.
Other adaptations of Shakespeare's story to be filmed include Franco Zeffirelli's 1986 film of Verdi's OtelloRosenthal, 2007, pp.176-177 and the 1956 Jubal which resets the story as a Western, centered on the Cassio characterBrode, 2000, p.173. The play was abridged to 30 minutes by Leon Garfield, and produced with cel animation for the TV series Shakespeare: The Animated Tales.Holland, 2007, p.43. Tim Blake Nelson's basketball-themed teen drama O reset the story at an elite boarding school. The similarity of the film's ending to the Columbine massacre, which happened while the film was being edited, delayed its release for over two ye.ars, until August 2001.Rosenthal, 2007 pp.180-181 A British TV adaptation by Andrew Davies, screened in 2001, re-set the story among senior officers of the Metropolitan Police.Rosenthal, 2007 pp.182-183. And the first decade of the 21st-Century saw two non-English language film adaptations: Alexander Abela's French Souli set the story in a modern-day Madagascan fishing village, and Vishal Bhardwaj's Hindi Omkara amidst political violence in modern Uttar Pradesh.Rosenthal, 2007, pp.184-185 & 188-191. The 1997 Malayalam movie Kaliyattam is an adaptation set against the backdrop of Theyyam artform of Kerala The ,2024 Bengali movie Athhoi is an adaptation set ,against a fictional town of Vinsura in West Bengal.