Have you seen the Trevor Nunn film version? The intro’s a bit contrived, but once they’re on the beach it comes more fully back into the original script. It’s actually one of my favorite films.
“My Shakespeare, rise....”
Oh, yes indeedy! I do like that one very much. One of my favorite film productions of TN was a BBC production done in 1980 - with Felicity Kendal, Alec McCowan and Robert Hardy.
Suggest skipping Much Ado About Nothing by Joss Whedon.