Oscar-winning scribe William Monahan (The Departed) has signed on to write/direct an adaptation of the 1959 Jean Anouilh play, Becket. Calling the project "an adaptation, or re-invigoration, of an ...
The Academy Film Archive ran into a bit of unexpected trouble restoring the 1964 film “Becket.” “Becket,” based on the Jean Anouilh play, stars Richard Burton as Thomas a Becket and Peter O’Toole as ...
“Becket,” producer Hal Wallis’ opulently entertaining film of Jean Anouilh’s play, is the tale of a wild and woolly British king and his God-intoxicated buddy, whom he unwisely appoints archbishop of ...