PLAYBILL ONLINE posted the following:

Flockhart, Tucci, Irwin Set for 1999 Midsummer Film
07-APR-98

Calista Flockhart, Bill Irwin, Kevin Kline, Stanley Tucci, Gregory Jbara
and Michelle Pfeiffer are set to star in a new big-screen adaptation of
William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, to be directed by Michael
Hoffman and released by Fox Searchlight Pictures in spring, 1999.

The project has been in the works for some time. Variety reported April 7
on the casting of Tucci (Big Night) as Puck.

This is at least the 17th filming of the comic fantasy about supernatural
creatures who play tricks on two pairs of lovers and a troupe of amateur
rate actors who wander into their woods one midsummer night.

Hoffman adapted the script from Shakespeare's play, and relocated the
action to Italy at the dawn of the 20th century.

Here is some of the major casting: Rupert Everett as Oberon, Calista
Flockhart as Helena, Anna Friel as Hermia, Bill Irwin as Tom Snout, Gregory
Jbara as Snub the Joiner, Kevin Kline as Bottom, Michelle Pfeiffer as
Titania, Sam Rockwell as Flute.

-- By Robert Viagas


 more on the casting of the new one:
 
 Cast (in alphabetical order)
      Christian Bale....Demetrius
      Rupert Everett....Oberon
      Calista Flockhart....Helena
      Anna Friel....Hermia
      Bill Irwin....Tom Snout
      Gregory Jbara....Snub the Joiner
      Kevin Kline....Bottom
      Sophie Marceau
      Michelle Pfeiffer....Titania
      Sam Rockwell....Flute
      David Strathairn
      Stanley Tucci....Puck
      Dominic West