Lifetime adapts Shakespeare with the upcoming series A Midsummer Night's Dream

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The American channel Lifetime, which broadcasts the series Unreal, is preparing a serial adaptation of Shakespeare's work, A Midsummer Night's Dream. The title is A Midsummer Night's Dream. Thepilot is becoming clearer thanks to its casting…

Billed as a psychological thriller, Lifetime's upcoming series, A Midsummer Night's Dream , will center on a group of four young people, who stay at a place called Dreamland Retreat, in pursuit of romantic desires. But their plan will be thwarted by terrifying forces living deep in the woods, who use their own fantasies and darkest secrets against them.

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We knew that actor Dominic Monaghan would be in the cast as the manager of Dreamland Retreat.Today, five new players join the cast of the pilot.

Eric Balfour (Haven) will be Mark, a netizen in love with his wife Joselin, who will be played by Chelsea Gillingan (Star-Crossed).  Jake Robinson (The Carrie Diaries) will be Daniel, a rich, stubborn lawyer with a broken heart, when he learns that his fiancée Hannah (Ellie GallPuberty Blues) has run away with his best friend Liam. Paul Walter Hauser (The Kingdom) completes the cast of the adaptation.

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Anthony Jaswinski, screenwriter of the movie Survival Instinct with Blake Lively , wrote the script for the pilot that Gary Fleder (Uni, Zoo) will direct.

To discover very soon on the American channel Lifetime.