Judi Dench Dench commented that the project launched her Hollywood career and joked that "it was thanks to Harvey, whose name I have had tattooed on my bum". Dench's other film of 1997 was Roger Spottiswoode's "Tomorrow Never Dies", her second film in the "James Bond" series. The same year, Dench reteamed with director John Madden to film "Shakespeare in Love" (1998), a romantic comedy-drama that depicts a love affair involving playwright William Shakespeare, played by Joseph Fiennes, while he was writing the play "Romeo and Juliet". On her performance as Queen Elizabeth I, "The New York Times" commented that "Dench's shrewd,
Shakespeare in Love his marriage to Sophie Rhys-Jones in 1999, the year after the film's release. However, after watching "Shakespeare in Love", he reportedly became attracted to the title of the character played by Colin Firth, and asked her mother Queen Elizabeth II to be given the title of Earl of Wessex instead. American Film Institute recognition: In 2005, the Writers Guild of America ranked its script the 28th greatest ever written. In November 2011, "Variety" reported that Disney Theatrical Productions intended to produce a stage version of the film in London with Sonia Friedman Productions. The production was officially announced in November