Chloé Zhao brings audiences a brand new take a look at William Shakespeare with Hamnet. The movie stars Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Emily Watson and Joe Alwyn. Zhao additionally co-wrote the script with Maggie O’Farrell. Government producers on the undertaking embrace Kristie Macosko Krieger, Chloé Zhao and Laurie Borg. Liza Marshall, Pippa Harris, Nicolas Gonda, Sam Mendes and Steven Spielberg are all on board as producers.
The synopsis from Focus Options reads,
“From Academy Award® winning writer/director Chloé Zhao, HAMNET tells the powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare’s timeless masterpiece, Hamlet.”
Hamnet is a fictional novel depicting the life and instances of Agnes, the spouse of William Shakespeare. The story takes audiences by means of a tumultuous story of shattered realities, loss, and heart-wrenching inspiration behind Shakespeare’s world-famous Hamlet.
Per Amazon, the official description for O’Farrell’s Hamnet reads:
England, 1580. A younger Latin tutor—penniless, bullied by a violent father—falls in love with an eccentric younger girl: a wild creature who walks her household’s property with a falcon on her shoulder and is thought all through the countryside for her uncommon presents as a healer. Agnes understands vegetation and potions higher than she does folks, however as soon as she settles on Henley Road in Stratford, she turns into a fiercely protecting mom and a steadfast, centrifugal pressure in her younger husband’s life. His presents as a author are simply starting to awaken when their beloved twins, Hamnet and Judith, are with the bubonic plague, and, devastatingly, one among them succumbs to the sickness.
A luminous portrait of a wedding, a shattering evocation of a household ravaged by grief and loss, and a hypnotic recreation of the story that impressed one of many best literary masterpieces of all time, Hamnet is mesmerizing and seductive, an impossible-to-put-down novel from one among our most gifted writers.
Focus Options will launch Hamnet from Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment in choose theaters on Thanksgiving Day, November 27, earlier than taking it vast on December 12.
Are you excited for this movie? Will you be seeing it in theaters? Have you ever learn the unique novel through which it’s based mostly? Hold forth under!
Jessie Buckley stars as Agnes and Paul Mescal as William Shakespeare in director Chloé Zhao’s HAMNET, a Focus Options launch.
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Jacobi Jupe stars as Hamnet, Bodhi Rae Breathnach as Susanna and Olivia Lynes as Judith in director Chloé Zhao’s HAMNET, a Focus Options launch.
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Paul Mescal stars as William Shakespeare in director Chloé Zhao’s HAMNET, a Focus Options launch.
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Jessie Buckley stars as Agnes and Joe Alwyn as Bartholomew in director Chloé Zhao’s HAMNET, a Focus Options launch.
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Jessie Buckley stars as Agnes in director Chloé Zhao’s HAMNET, a Focus Options launch.
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Paul Mescal stars as William Shakespeare in director Chloé Zhao’s HAMNET, a Focus Options launch.
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