Director Michael Almereyda and actor Penn Badgley talk about Cymbeline. A contemporary take on the classic Shakespeare play—this gritty film follows a drug kingpin who’s driven to desperate measures during a take-no-prisoners war between dirty cops and an outlaw biker gang.

Cymbeline is one of Shakespeare's late romances, which (like The Tempest and The Winter's Tale) combines comedy and tragedy. Imogen, the daughter of King Cymbeline of Britain, angers her father when she marries Posthumus, a worthy but penniless gentleman. The King banishes Posthumus, who goes to Rome, where he falls prey to the machinations of Iachimo, who tries to convince him that Imogen will be unfaithful. Meanwhile, the Queen (Imogen's stepmother) plots against her stepdaughter by trying ...