'Hamlet' players move to screen

RSC cast reassembled for BBC version

By GORDON COX

The major players in the cast of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2008 production of “Hamlet,” including David Tenant and Patrick Stewart, have been reassembled for a screen version that will air on UK channel BBC Two later this year and in the U.S. and Japan in 2010.

Gregory Doran returns to helm the production, which films in June. Illuminations produces.