I'm watching the Anthony Hopkins Lear, and so far, really enjoying it. It's set in modern times, in a fascist England run by the military. Hopkins is Lear, Emma Thompson is Goneril, Emily Watson is Regan. Jim Broadbent is Kent. Edmund is black, played by John Macmillan. The King of France and Duke of Burgundy are African princes. Edgar is a scientist, examining the sun and its portents through a telescope.