Noomi Rapace will lead cast in a gender-swapped adaptation of Hamlet from filmmaker Ali Abbasi.The film will reunite Abbasi with The Wife and Melancholia outfit Meta Film after they produced the director’s Oscar-nominated Cannes 2018 hit Border.Iceland’s Sjón (The Northman) is writing the project, with Stine Meldgaard Madsen (Borgen) producing for Meta Film.
The film will be produced in collaboration with Boom Films, with principal photography scheduled for autumn 2021.Swedish-Danish-Iranian filmmaker Abbasi said: “Shakespeare stole the Hamlet story from us.
Now it’s our turn to claim it back and make a version so insane and so bloody that make him turn in his grave. Let’s make Hamlet great again!”Prometheus and The Girl With The Dragon
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