Benedict Cumberbatch to Trade his Kingdom For a Horse in Richard III
Benedict Cumberbatch is facing a winter of discontent. The Sherlock star, who will be treading the boards as Hamlet in London in 2015, will first take on another Shakespeare classic: Richard III. According to Variety, Cumberbatch will play the evil king in an upcoming film for BBC 2, directed by Dominic Cooke and adapted by Ben Power. "I can't wait to work with Dominic Cooke again to bring this complex, f…