Riz Ahmed to star in new film adaptation of Hamlet, Joe Alwyn and Morfydd Clark co-starring

[KevinKlawitter]

Posted: 5/11/22 at 10:56am

Re-teaming with the director of the Oscar-winning short film The Long Goodbye

Ahmed stars as Hamlet, haunted by his father’s ghost and driven to increasingly unstable heights. Moving from elite London to the city’s underground, from Hindu temples to homeless tent cities, he goes to rash and violent lengths to avenge his father’s murder, ultimately questioning his own role in the family’s corruption and who he has become.

Karia, whose feature debut “Surge” played in competition at Sundance, will direct the screenplay from Michael Lesslie (“Macbeth&rdquo. James Wilson (“Under the Skin&rdquo will produce along with Lesslie’s Storyteller Productions (“The Rescue&rdquo and Ahmed and Allie Moore on behalf of their Left Handed Films (“Mogul Mowgli&rdquo

“This is a Hamlet about race, mental health and inequality, which asks if setting things right means setting fire to the old order. Our Hamlet is an outsider in a wealthy British Indian family, who starts to question his relatives’ morality and his own sanity after encountering his father’s ghost. Hamlet’s bloody quest for revenge against his father’s killer will be told with a boldness and urgency that grabs hold of audiences and won’t let go,” said Ahmed and Karia.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 5/11/22 at 11:25am

Me: I could live my whole life and be ok never seeing another Hamlet.

Riz Ahmed: I'm gonna star in it.

Me: Tickets go on sale when, exactly?

[KevinKlawitter]

Posted: 12/19/25 at 5:27pm