This Shakespeare Adaptation Has One of the Most Impressive Ensemble Casts

Contemporary actors have brought William Shakespeare's plays to film screens as far back as 1935's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Laurence Olivier's Hamlet in 1948; yet few adaptations have delivered a more celebrity-studded cast than 1993's quietly whimsical Much Ado About Nothing. Up-and-coming director Kenneth Branagh directed and starred alongside the likes of Emma Thompson, Denzel Washington, Kate Beckinsale, Keanu Reeves, Michael Keaton, Robert Sean Leonard, and Imelda Staunton — yes, you read that right. The film is a conglomeration of evolving talent and stars current to the 1990s; where else will you find John Wick reciting the Bard's elaborate prose?