the scottish play
For a very long time I've had ideas for a corporate version of Macbeth, selectively using the original text, in which nobody really dies. It would focus on the cutthroat nature of a business world populated by people who would not starve if they lost their job but still treat every objective of it like life and death. It would be a comic, because I can't make a film. But I have come to realize that as a whole, it is too intractable a puzzle to fill in, and also that pages and pages of old men in business suits would be even more boring to draw than to look at. Instead, I can take a crack at the individual ideas I've had for it as isolated exercises when the mood takes me, which in a way might be better.
the scottish play
@Cerulean I think there was a 2000 film version of Hamlet with the aesthetic you are going for: Bill Murray is Polonius! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F39CYBE6-Kg
re: the scottish play
@Cerulean @eredien I also found both these factoids very charming: