Director didn’t like ending of 'King Lear.' Here’s how he changed it

Unlike the original play by William Shakespeare, the protagonists in director Ko Sun-woong’s reinterpretation, “King Lear: An Apocrypha,” do not meet a tragic end. The aging king still dies in the end, but only after defeating the villains. Cordelia, Lear’s youngest daughter and the only one who remains loyal to him, survives and looks toward a new love with Edgar, the son of Gloucester, who is unjustly cast out by his father. "King Lear" has inspired countless reinterpretations, but few have gone as far as this one in altering the original narrative.