Mick Jagger pays tribute to his ‘favorite playwright’

He recently passed away Tom StoppardBritish screenwriter and author, among other things, of the film “Shakespeare in Love”, thanks to which he won the Oscar and the Golden Globe for best screenplay in 1999. Among his most loyal fans there is also Mick Jaggerwho mourns his death with great sorrow.

“Tom Stoppard was my favorite playwright. He leaves us with a majestic, intellectual and entertaining work. I will miss him forever” writes the Rolling Stones frontman on X.

Stoppard, in fact, became famous first and foremost as playwright: His most famous play is “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead” (premiered in 1966), which follows two minor characters from William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” and, like much of his work, includes many philosophical reflections.

He also worked regularly in the cinemawriting the first draft of the screenplay for Steven Spielberg’s “Empire of the Sun” and the final rewrite of “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.” He also contributed to “Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith,” and was nominated for an Oscar for co-writing Terry Gilliam’s “Brazil.”

Also Sean Ono Lennon he paid tribute to Stoppard, calling him “an absolute genius”.

Born Tomáš Sträussler in Czechoslovakia on 3 July 1937, he attended boarding school in India after his Jewish family fled the Nazis, eventually settling in the United Kingdom after the Second World War. Curiosity: the adjective “Stoppardian” was added to the English dictionary to describe a style of writing that combines wit, linguistic talent, and philosophical complexity.