Tom Stoppard
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Sep 17, 2026
Barbara MillerHOST
Tony Burke acknowledged the delay as he took to the stage
Tony BurkeSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
There's a line at the start of, uh, Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead that there's an art to the building of suspense.
Tony BurkeSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So here we are.
Tony BurkeSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It's good to be here with each and every one of you
Pete WrightHOST
I th- I bring up the dialogue because I think, uh, it, it reminded me so much of, what was it? Uh, question tennis [laughs] game of...
Pete WrightHOST
from, uh, Stoppard's play.
Pete WrightHOST
You know, the, the Macbeth turn with the-
Andy NelsonHOST
Oh, oh, oh, you're talking about, um, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead?
LucyHOST
Yeah, no, seriously.
LucyHOST
This is a screenplay idea so convoluted that Tom Stoppard quit while trying to write it.
LucyHOST
And both Stephen Sondheim and Anthony Perkins asked for so much money that the studio couldn't afford it.
LucyHOST
Yeah.
NikkiHOST
A cool fact that I found was that apparently they share similarities, and I don't know if this was intended, with a play called Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.
NikkiHOST
by someone called Tom Stoppard, which is a story that's, I guess, very, very similar.
NikkiHOST
And it's, I mean, I read earlier about something to do with, like, honestly, something to do with Shakespeare.
NikkiHOST
I don't know.
Domhnall GleesonGUEST
But I was like...
Domhnall GleesonGUEST
I was in a Tom Stoppard adaptation of Anna Karenina.
Domhnall GleesonGUEST
So I read all of Anna Karenina in like five days or something like that.
Domhnall GleesonGUEST
How did you do that? And it just broke my brain.
Dave McArthurHOST
It's, uh, it's a combination of three different-
Jay SchwiegGUEST
Tom Stoppard actually was-
Dave McArthurHOST
Tom, Tom Stoppard
Jay SchwiegGUEST
... was involved in writing it.
Jay SchwiegGUEST
The, uh, the playwright who just died, I think, this last year wrote-
Steve CatullaGUEST
But-
Dave McArthurHOST
It was like, it was, uh, Gilliam had the idea, and he worked with another guy, and apparently they had a falling out.
Dave McArthurHOST
Tom Stoppard came in to sort of script doctor it, and then a third guy, who actually got credit also, Mc- McKeown or something like that-
DirkHOST
So Landis is out.
DirkHOST
The first person they give a shot at is Tom Stoppard, and he was known in theater circles for writing plays such as Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead.
DirkHOST
He also wrote the screenplay for Terry Gilliam's Brazil, and he would later co-write the movie Shakespeare in Love-
MattHOST
Okay
Lee FordHOST
He was originally attached as director.
Lee FordHOST
He claimed in an interview he'd invited playwright Tom Stoppard and then writer and composer Stephen Sondheim and even actor Anthony Perkins to write the screenplay.
Lee FordHOST
But it was ultimately finished by Jonathan Lynn.
Lee FordHOST
Jonathan Lynn is a British actor and director more famous in the UK for the incredibly wonderful Yes Minister and then ultimately Yes Prime Minister.
ChrisHOST
Ridiculous.
ChrisHOST
I mean, fair play for knowing Tom Stoppard.
ChrisHOST
But anyway, let's just get back to the knees.
ChrisHOST
I don't know what his knees are.
ZHOST
Did you
KeithHOST
say Michael Crichton? Did you say directed by Tom Stoppard?
ZHOST
No.
KeithHOST
That's not true.
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