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Kenneth Branagh legitimately thought he had landed the lead role.ДЄ young Kenneth Branagh was an early contender for the part of Mozart. вЂњHe was very upfront about it, and I appreciated that rather than getting my hopes up that it was possible IвЂ™d be playing the role.вЂќ 3. вЂњMiloЕЎ Forman told me, вЂOh no, you must not play the Mozart because the people not believing the Luke Spacewalker as Mozart,вЂ™вЂќ Hamill said in a 1986 interview.

AMADEUS FULL MOVIE MOVIE

But when the time came for the movie to be made, Czech director MiloЕЎ Forman couldnвЂ™t get the space cowboy image out of his head. In an attempt to circumvent any typecasting he might get after three blockbuster Star Wars films launched his career, Mark Hamill played the composer on Broadway for nine months in 1983. Mark Hamill wanted the lead role, but Milos Forman wouldn't let him audition. The production won five Tonys, including Best Play and Best Actor for McKellen, who beat out Curry for the award the two leads had been nominated in the same category.

Amadeus played in various theaters in London beginning in 1979, then premiered on Broadway in 1980 with Ian McKellen as Antonio Salieri, Tim Curry as Mozart, and Jane Seymour as Constanze, Mozart's wife. Russian poet/playwright Alexander Pushkin wrote a short play in 1830 called Mozart and Salieri, and playwright Peter Shaffer-who was already a Tony winner for Equus-took inspiration from that to write his own play. Amadeus began life as a Tony Award-winning play. Here's a look back at the Oscar-winning biopic that not only brought renewed interest to Mozart's music in the 1980s, but inspired Austrian rocker Falco to write the chart-topping ' Rock Me Amadeus.' Poor Salieri never stood a chance. Though much has been written about the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the most entertaining look at the master composer's life might very well be Amadeus, Milos Forman's film about the artist's life (and rivalries), which was released on September 19, 1984.

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