The article also hints that Stewart may now play the role of 'Lear' in his next TV production, 'Boss Lear' due to begin filming in October. 
The story is an adaptation by Stephen Harrigan -author of the novel 'Gates of the Alamo' - of Shakespeare's King Lear set in 1841 on a vast Texas ranch.

Originally Gregory Peck was to have starred as Lear in the co-production between Stewart's 'Flying Freehold' company, Robert Halmi Snr's Hallmark Entertainment and TNT television in the US - the same team who brought 'A Chistmas Carol' to US TV viewers so successfully last year.

Thanks as ever to fellow PSASmember Aline Davis for spotting this

Sequel to X-Men? - "..the cast are contracted for another film"  - the studio (Fox) will be watching world-wide receipts before committing.

Star Trek 10 (X)? - ."..a story outline by 'Gladiator' screenwriter John Logan has been written" 
(With a possible actors strike looming for next year, Paramount and the rest of the studios have a tricky situation to resolve).
If made this is "likely to be the last for the TNG team..."

Playing the next Bond baddie? - "No truth in that as far as I am aware" 

Appearing in the Harry Potter film? - "No longer any truth in that rumour..."

Returning to the stage in the UK? - plans to return for a 'major' theatre role in 2001 "to re-estabish myself in Britain..." Read more from the Sunday Times interview

What he misses most about England - "the landscape" and "...the English subtext"

On typecasting - "...a lot of people, particularly in feature films, don't want to cast an actor who is so identifiable with a role and a genre..." 
 

For German fans, the premiere of X-Men will be two days later on Thursday 17 August in Cologne.