Hedda is a wild reimagining of an 1890s play. Here are 11 more times Hollywood put a zany spin on an old story

When Nia DaCosta took on playwright Henrik Ibsen’s , she didn’t come to adapt the play. She came to reinvent it.

The result is an impressive work of technical achievement. Starring Tessa Thompson and Nina Hoss as feuding women of intimidating genius, stymied and pitted against one another by a patriarchal society, explores Ibsen's themes of duplicity.

Namely, is the story’s focus — kept woman Hedda Gabler, trapped in an aristocratic marriage by her own mercurial impulses and outside social pressures — a villain, or victim for finding a sense of personal power in manipulating those around her? , available to stream on Prime now, asks the same question. But while keeping the basics, DaCosta’s version does away with pretty much everything else.

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