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Texas | King Lear
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Television Feature Film | 2003 | Roy
Best Drama Script | 2003 | Stephen
Best Actress in a Miniseries or a Motion Picture Made for Television | 2003 | Marcia Gay
Best Actor in a Miniseries or a Motion Picture Made for Television | 2003 | Patrick
Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series Miniseries or a Motion Picture Made for Television | 2003 | Roy
Sir Patrick Stewart's friend Sir Ian McKellen credits this as one of his favorite William Shakespeare based performances on film.
Sir Patrick Stewart and Colm Meaney played officers of the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D on Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987).
Sir Patrick Stewart and Julie Cox have appeared in different filmed versions of Frank Herbert's Dune.
The movie is set in 1842, when Texas was an independent Republic with Sam Houston as President.
The story is broadly based on William Shakespeare's play King Lear, which was itself broadly based on a legend about a British king who allegedly flourished around 800 BC. The character analogs are as follows: John Lear = King LearHenry Westover = Earl of GloucesterThomas Westover = Edgar of GloucesterEmmett Westover = Edmund of GloucesterSusannah Lear Tumlinson = Princess GonerilHenry Tumlinson = Duke Maglanus of AlbanyRebecca Lear Highsmith = Princess ReganMr. Highsmith = Duke Henninus of CornwallClaudia Lear = Princess CordeliaMenchaca = King Aganippus of FranceRip the slave = amalgam of Earl Caius of Kent and The FoolWarnell = Oswald.
