Dear Bill,
Thanks for the screenplay pitches—you're certainly a prolific guy! We're confident that some of the ideas, with a few tweaks, would have real blockbuster potential. I'm happy to pass along this feedback from the studio creative team:

 Hamlet: Given that the Academy loves a nut job at Oscar time, getting an A-lister attached to this should be a cinch. But let's lighten up on the character's bipolar disorder and keep the emo girlfriend alive, à la "Silver Linings Playbook." Or, random thought: How about taking it into full Ephron mode—"Dateless in Denmark"?

Romeo and Juliet: Sorry, but the higher-ups say the ending is such a downer that they wouldn't even test it. The post-screening tweets would be murder. "Hunger Games" looks to be the anomaly in terms of dead-teenagers profitability, so we'll pass on this one. Unless you want to make them vampires or zombies; then let's talk.

 King Lear : Retooled as an action flick, this could be a great starring vehicle for a geriatric hunk like Liam Neeson. How about a rewrite where Lear, a retired CIA operative, has to rescue his daughter Cordelia from an undercover crime syndicate? (Love the cliff dive, by the way . . . can totally see this filmed like a Bond sequence.)

 Titus Andronicus : This slasher flick is solid in terms of blood, guts and body count but would doubtless land us in NC-17 ratings territory. Just riffing here, but what if we lose the rape, cannibalism and beheadings and re-imagine it as dark animated tale for kids? "Game of Thrones" meets "Frozen."

 The Tempest: Our first thought was obviously CGI, disaster/battle movie, but the studio's really looking for something more budget friendly. We'd be on board for a buddy flick featuring an uptight magician ( Daniel Day-Lewis ?) and a bumbling, hirsute loser (Will Ferrell or Galifianakis?). Is this island big enough for the both of them?
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