The Tempest two other silent versions, one from 1911 by Edwin Thanhouser, are known to have existed, but have been lost. The plot was adapted for the Western "Yellow Sky", directed by William A. Wellman, in 1946. The 1956 science fiction film "Forbidden Planet" set the story on a planet in space, Altair IV, instead of an island. Professor Morbius and his daughter Altaira (Anne Francis) are the Prospero and Miranda figures (both Prospero and Morbius having harnessed the mighty forces that inhabit their new homes). Ariel is represented by the helpful Robby the Robot, while Sycorax is replaced with the powerful
Return to the Forbidden Planet Return to the Forbidden Planet Return to the Forbidden Planet is a Jukebox musical by playwright Bob Carlton based on Shakespeare's "The Tempest" and the 1956 science fiction film "Forbidden Planet" (which itself drew its plot loosely from "The Tempest"). It was billed as "Shakespeare's forgotten rock and roll masterpiece". "Return to the Forbidden Planet" started life with the Bubble Theatre Company as a production for open-air performance in a tent. A revised version of the musical opened, indoors, at the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool in the mid-1980s. It later moved to the Tricycle Theatre in London. After some rework