My friend and I discussed a joke version.

Rating: 7/10 (18 April 2006)

Cate Blanchett had only recently entered our vocabulary when "Elizabeth" came out, but she did a good job playing the Virgin Queen and showing her various struggles (as it was, this was all pretty new to me) and the vicissitudes of ruling a country. Most people probably never would have imagined an East Indian person directing a movie about an English monarch, but he did a good job too. Still, I have to wonder how many movies there can be about European monarchs. The obvious surprising thing is that co-stars Geoffrey Rush and Joseph Fiennes starred in "Shakespeare in Love", for which Judi Dench won an Oscar for playing Queen Elizabeth. The things that we see in life. Also starring Christopher Eccleston, Richard Attenborough and John Gielgud (in his final role).
My friend and I once discussed a joke version. As an example of how silly it would be: Dan Aykroyd, Jim Carrey, Mike Myers and Will Smith would play the bishops; Whoopi Goldberg would play the maid; and the credits would feature Jackie Chan yelling "Wah-tah!"