BBC

May 1, 2014

The lead role is filled by Michael Fassbender, who is soon to be seen in X-Men: Days of Future Past – opposite three other actors who have played the troubled Scottish king.

Fassbender will appear as Macbeth next year in director Justin Kurzel’s big screen adaptation of Shakespeare’s Scottish play.

Iain Canning, producer on the new Macbeth, told Empire magazine that it had been “incredibly crucial” to shoot scenes in Scotland.

He said: “You go to Skye, and it’s almost an otherworldy place, and you imagine witches could come out of that landscape.”

In the X-Men movies, Fassbender plays super villain Magneto in his younger days. […continued]

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