What is going on in hollywood these days? Accepted, this part of the USA is generally seen as shallow, money hungry, get all you can and step on the little guy and ‘Oh, but don’t forget to laugh at the latest Adam Sandler film. This time he’ll take the mick out of a different minority to the last film’.

Remakes, reboots and sequels. It’s a sad sign of the growing recession that original talent, such as aspiring screenwriters, playwrights and novelists are being pushed out of the official film making industry in favour of play-it-safe remakes, reboots and sequels of films that have proved money worthy in the past.

Apparently they plan to remake Lawrence of Arabia with Robert Pattinson in the lead. I’ll say no more on that one and leave it for you the reader to debate. What is next? Schindler’s List starring Hugo Weaving as Oskar Schindler, a knife wielding hero that hunts down John C Reilly’s Amon Goth? Or Withnail and I 2: Back to the Countryside where uncle Monty finally gets his way and Withnail lands his desired cigar commercial? But no, Hollywood might just pull an original story out of the bag. I’m sure we all cannot wait for Starbucks: The Latte Letters, a story of true love between two baristas as they compact the bins on a rainy day. Oh, the hilarity!

This is why I love National Theatre Wales, a community of truly original creative that just want to stand up and yell ‘I’ve got a voice damn it and I’m damn well gonna show it!’. Hollywood, you could learn a lot from NTW members. I have.

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