Netflix’s new limited series Black Rabbit has added 11 to its cast, led by stars and executive producers Jude Law and Jason Bateman. The additions include Academy Award-winning actor Troy Kotsur, Abbey Lee, Odessa Young and Robin De Jesus.
From Zach Baylin and Kate Susman, Black Rabbit follows the owner of a New York City hotspot (Law) who allows his turbulent brother (Bateman) back into his life, opening up the door to escalating dangers that threaten to bring down everything he’s built.
In addition to Law and Bateman, Cleopatra Coleman, Amaka Okafor, Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù, Dagmara Dominczyk and Chris Coy also star.
Kotsur will play “Joe Mancuso,” a local bookie with ties to organized crime and the brothers’ past. Lee will play “Anna,” a formidable NYC bartender. Young will play “Gen,” an...
From Zach Baylin and Kate Susman, Black Rabbit follows the owner of a New York City hotspot (Law) who allows his turbulent brother (Bateman) back into his life, opening up the door to escalating dangers that threaten to bring down everything he’s built.
In addition to Law and Bateman, Cleopatra Coleman, Amaka Okafor, Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù, Dagmara Dominczyk and Chris Coy also star.
Kotsur will play “Joe Mancuso,” a local bookie with ties to organized crime and the brothers’ past. Lee will play “Anna,” a formidable NYC bartender. Young will play “Gen,” an...
- 4/30/2024
- by Rosy Cordero
- Deadline Film + TV
Claire McCarthy’s refreshing reimagining of Ophelia grants personal autonomy and vivacity to one of literature’s most recognisable and one-dimensional tragic figures. For the final 20 minutes. Unfortunately, Ophelia is an hour and 46 minutes long. What a tragedy!
Lisa Klein’s Ya novel is the foundation for McCarthy’s Shakespearean story and Rey star Daisy Riley plays the eponymous hero. Fine ingredients for an inspiring teen drama. And this Ophelia certainly has heroic potential – even as a small child – cavorting through Elsinore Castle like she owns the place and speaking up before the royal court, defying the 14th-century diktat that girls should be ornamental rather than opinionated.
Something about the scruffy, cheeky little girl charms Queen Gertrude (Naomi Watts) and she takes the child under her wing, hosing her down and training her up so she may evolve into a lady of the court. By the time Hamlet (George MacKay) encounters her,...
Lisa Klein’s Ya novel is the foundation for McCarthy’s Shakespearean story and Rey star Daisy Riley plays the eponymous hero. Fine ingredients for an inspiring teen drama. And this Ophelia certainly has heroic potential – even as a small child – cavorting through Elsinore Castle like she owns the place and speaking up before the royal court, defying the 14th-century diktat that girls should be ornamental rather than opinionated.
Something about the scruffy, cheeky little girl charms Queen Gertrude (Naomi Watts) and she takes the child under her wing, hosing her down and training her up so she may evolve into a lady of the court. By the time Hamlet (George MacKay) encounters her,...
- 11/22/2019
- by Emily Breen
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Exclusive: Sundance 2018 title Ophelia has been picked up for UK and Ireland distribution by Blue Finch Film Releasing.
U.S. sales outfit Covert struck the deal on the title, which was released by IFC in North America earlier this year. The UK deal was closed between Jim Harvey on behalf of Covert and Mike Chapman for Blue Finch.
A retelling of Shakespeare’s Hamlet from Ophelia’s perspective, pic stars Daisy Ridley, Clive Owen, Naomi Watts, George MacKay and Tom Felton.
Claire McCarthy directs from Semi Chellas’ script, based on the novel by Lisa Klein. Producers are Daniel Bobker, Sarah Curtis, Ehren Kruger, and Paul Hanson in association with Freebury Productions Limited. Funding came from Ingenious Media and Bert Marcus Film.
Fledgling outfit Blue Finch plans to release the film later this year with a theatrical component. The distributor’s first theatrical title, Charming, is currently on release. Movies on...
U.S. sales outfit Covert struck the deal on the title, which was released by IFC in North America earlier this year. The UK deal was closed between Jim Harvey on behalf of Covert and Mike Chapman for Blue Finch.
A retelling of Shakespeare’s Hamlet from Ophelia’s perspective, pic stars Daisy Ridley, Clive Owen, Naomi Watts, George MacKay and Tom Felton.
Claire McCarthy directs from Semi Chellas’ script, based on the novel by Lisa Klein. Producers are Daniel Bobker, Sarah Curtis, Ehren Kruger, and Paul Hanson in association with Freebury Productions Limited. Funding came from Ingenious Media and Bert Marcus Film.
Fledgling outfit Blue Finch plans to release the film later this year with a theatrical component. The distributor’s first theatrical title, Charming, is currently on release. Movies on...
- 8/15/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
The new "Hamlet" historical romantic feature "Ophelia", now playing, is directed by Claire McCarthy and adapted by Semi Chellas, based on the novel by Lisa Klein, starring Daisy Ridley, Naomi Watts, Clive Owen and George MacKay:
"...as a rebellious and motherless child, 'Ophelia' (Ridley) is taken into 'Elsinore Castle' by 'Queen Gerturde' (Watts) as one of her most trusted ladies-in-waiting. Soon enough, Ophelia captures the affections of the young 'Prince Hamlet' (MacKay).
"A passionate romance kindles between the two in secret as the kingdom is on the brink of war amidst its own political intrigue and betrayal.
"When Hamlet's father is murdered and the prince's wits begin to unravel into an insatiable quest for vengeance, Ophelia sharply navigates the rules of power in Denmark all while struggling to choose between her true love and her own life..."
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"...as a rebellious and motherless child, 'Ophelia' (Ridley) is taken into 'Elsinore Castle' by 'Queen Gerturde' (Watts) as one of her most trusted ladies-in-waiting. Soon enough, Ophelia captures the affections of the young 'Prince Hamlet' (MacKay).
"A passionate romance kindles between the two in secret as the kingdom is on the brink of war amidst its own political intrigue and betrayal.
"When Hamlet's father is murdered and the prince's wits begin to unravel into an insatiable quest for vengeance, Ophelia sharply navigates the rules of power in Denmark all while struggling to choose between her true love and her own life..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Ophelia"...
- 7/2/2019
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
This weekend, Sony Pictures Classics launches Alex Holmes’ Toronto ’18 premiere Maiden. The company was bullish about the doc’s prospects at the title’s New York premiere hosted by awards maven Peggy Siegal.
IFC Films is heading out with a day and date release of Ophelia, a modern-language re-imagining of Hamlet told from Ophelia’s Pov, starring Daisy Ridley, Naomi Watts and Clive Owen. Greenwich Entertainment is opening Locarno Film Festival prize-winner Three Peaks, looking to take advantage of the dearth of new dramas, while KimStim is bowing the provocative social satire The Plagiarists in New York.
Other limited releases heading to theaters this weekend include Euphoria with Alicia Vikander, Eva Green and Charlotte Rampling via Freestyle Releasing and Lionsgate Home Entertainment as well as Vertical Entertainment’s The Last Whistle. ArtAffects, meanwhile, is opening its faith-centered The Other Side Of Heaven 2: Fire of Faith in over two hundred locations Friday.
IFC Films is heading out with a day and date release of Ophelia, a modern-language re-imagining of Hamlet told from Ophelia’s Pov, starring Daisy Ridley, Naomi Watts and Clive Owen. Greenwich Entertainment is opening Locarno Film Festival prize-winner Three Peaks, looking to take advantage of the dearth of new dramas, while KimStim is bowing the provocative social satire The Plagiarists in New York.
Other limited releases heading to theaters this weekend include Euphoria with Alicia Vikander, Eva Green and Charlotte Rampling via Freestyle Releasing and Lionsgate Home Entertainment as well as Vertical Entertainment’s The Last Whistle. ArtAffects, meanwhile, is opening its faith-centered The Other Side Of Heaven 2: Fire of Faith in over two hundred locations Friday.
- 6/28/2019
- by Brian Brooks
- Deadline Film + TV
We’ve had “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead” and “Fortinbras Gets Drunk,” and now there’s “Ophelia,” an intelligent and gorgeous spin on Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” from the point of view of the melancholy prince’s beloved.
“Hamlet” of course has its share of memorable characters — recall the bit player who claimed that the play was about a grave digger who meets a prince — but this provocative adaptation of Lisa Klein’s novel gives an oft-maligned character purpose and agency. It is not betrayal and madness that bewitches this Ophelia but toxic masculinity.
Director Claire McCarthy (“The Waiting City”) and adapter Semi Chellas (“Mad Men”) give us an Elsinore Castle and its court that’s as handsomely mounted as any number of straightforward Shakespearean adaptations, but they cleverly tweak the proceedings to make us reexamine key moments from an entirely different angle.
Also Read: 'Straight Up' Film Review:...
“Hamlet” of course has its share of memorable characters — recall the bit player who claimed that the play was about a grave digger who meets a prince — but this provocative adaptation of Lisa Klein’s novel gives an oft-maligned character purpose and agency. It is not betrayal and madness that bewitches this Ophelia but toxic masculinity.
Director Claire McCarthy (“The Waiting City”) and adapter Semi Chellas (“Mad Men”) give us an Elsinore Castle and its court that’s as handsomely mounted as any number of straightforward Shakespearean adaptations, but they cleverly tweak the proceedings to make us reexamine key moments from an entirely different angle.
Also Read: 'Straight Up' Film Review:...
- 6/26/2019
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
Daisy Ridley's Ophelia reimagines Hamlet as a parable for today, and turns a great tragedy into a disappointing soap opera.
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To be or not to be. That is the question that has fascinated and bedeviled centuries of theatergoers and one eternally waffling prince. It is also the conundrum faced by any attempts to reinterpret or revisit William Shakespeare’s hallowed Hamlet text from a different vantage. Set in the medieval—if a stage director is so inclined—Danish castle of Elsinore, Hamlet’s great halls are populated by a dozen ambiguous and mostly tragic players. None more so than Ophelia. The doomed waif of generations of male writers’ admiring pity, she is almost always cast as the poor dear driven to madness and suicide due to the vacillating whims of a poor excuse for a hero. It’s a beautiful role derived from a different time and different set of values.
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To be or not to be. That is the question that has fascinated and bedeviled centuries of theatergoers and one eternally waffling prince. It is also the conundrum faced by any attempts to reinterpret or revisit William Shakespeare’s hallowed Hamlet text from a different vantage. Set in the medieval—if a stage director is so inclined—Danish castle of Elsinore, Hamlet’s great halls are populated by a dozen ambiguous and mostly tragic players. None more so than Ophelia. The doomed waif of generations of male writers’ admiring pity, she is almost always cast as the poor dear driven to madness and suicide due to the vacillating whims of a poor excuse for a hero. It’s a beautiful role derived from a different time and different set of values.
- 6/22/2019
- Den of Geek
Sneak Peek the new "Hamlet" historical romantic feature "Ophelia" directed by Claire McCarthy and adapted by Semi Chellas, based on the novel by Lisa Klein, starring Daisy Ridley, Naomi Watts, Clive Owen and George MacKay, opening June 28, 2019:
"...as a rebellious and motherless child, 'Ophelia' (Ridley) is taken into 'Elsinore Castle' by 'Queen Gerturde' (Watts) as one of her most trusted ladies-in-waiting. Soon enough, Ophelia captures the affections of the young 'Prince Hamlet' (MacKay).
"A passionate romance kindles between the two in secret as the kingdom is on the brink of war amidst its own political intrigue and betrayal.
"When Hamlet's father is murdered and the prince's wits begin to unravel into an insatiable quest for vengeance, Ophelia sharply navigates the rules of power in Denmark all while struggling to choose between her true love and her own life..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Ophelia...
"...as a rebellious and motherless child, 'Ophelia' (Ridley) is taken into 'Elsinore Castle' by 'Queen Gerturde' (Watts) as one of her most trusted ladies-in-waiting. Soon enough, Ophelia captures the affections of the young 'Prince Hamlet' (MacKay).
"A passionate romance kindles between the two in secret as the kingdom is on the brink of war amidst its own political intrigue and betrayal.
"When Hamlet's father is murdered and the prince's wits begin to unravel into an insatiable quest for vengeance, Ophelia sharply navigates the rules of power in Denmark all while struggling to choose between her true love and her own life..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Ophelia...
- 5/7/2019
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Daisy Ridley and Naomi Watts are putting a spin on William Shakespeare’s classic Hamlet.
In a new trailer for Ophelia, the two stars battle it out over a throne and the love of one man, Prince Hamlet. While the story is usually told through the eyes of Hamlet (in this instance portrayed by George MacKay), the tale comes from the perspective of his bride-to-be, Ophelia (Ridley).
As Ophelia is taken under the wing of Hamlet’s mother, Gertrude (Watts), she catches the prince’s eye even as he loses his grip on his psyche, turning toward vengeance after his...
In a new trailer for Ophelia, the two stars battle it out over a throne and the love of one man, Prince Hamlet. While the story is usually told through the eyes of Hamlet (in this instance portrayed by George MacKay), the tale comes from the perspective of his bride-to-be, Ophelia (Ridley).
As Ophelia is taken under the wing of Hamlet’s mother, Gertrude (Watts), she catches the prince’s eye even as he loses his grip on his psyche, turning toward vengeance after his...
- 4/30/2019
- by Alexia Fernandez
- PEOPLE.com
What would Hamlet look like through Ophelia’s eyes? That is the driving philosophy behind “Ophelia,” a new drama from Australian director and visual artist Claire McCarthy. IFC Films nabbed rights to the film this past January, though it premiered a whole year earlier at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. “Star Wars” breakout Daisy Ridley leads the film as the titular heroine, with Naomi Watts playing Gertrude and Clive Owen as Claudius. A recently released trailer plays up lots of high court intrigue and dangerous players vying for power, much like a certain mega-hit HBO show.
Per the official synopsis: “Set in medieval Denmark and spoken in a modern tongue with a poetic twist, [‘Ophelia’] re-calibrates the classic Shakespearean tragedy of ‘Hamlet’ so that its unspoken, complex heroine may share her own story. As a rebellious and motherless child, Ophelia (Ridley) is taken into Elsinore Castle by Queen Gerturde (Watts) as one of her most trusted ladies-in-waiting.
Per the official synopsis: “Set in medieval Denmark and spoken in a modern tongue with a poetic twist, [‘Ophelia’] re-calibrates the classic Shakespearean tragedy of ‘Hamlet’ so that its unspoken, complex heroine may share her own story. As a rebellious and motherless child, Ophelia (Ridley) is taken into Elsinore Castle by Queen Gerturde (Watts) as one of her most trusted ladies-in-waiting.
- 4/30/2019
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
IFC Films has picked up U.S. rights to Ophelia, the reimagining of Shakespeare's Hamlet by Australian filmmaker Claire McCarthy and Covert Media.
Star Wars leading lady Daisy Ridley plays the protagonist. George MacKay co-stars as Hamlet, alongside Naomi Watts as Gertrude and Clive Owen as Claudius.
IFC Films plans a theatrical release later this year. The film, which had its world premiere at Sundance in 2018, was adapted for the screen by Semi Chellas, from Lisa Klein’s 2006 young adult novel Ophelia.
Set in the 14th century, but spoken in a contemporary voice, Ophelia puts the focus on the drama’s young ...
Star Wars leading lady Daisy Ridley plays the protagonist. George MacKay co-stars as Hamlet, alongside Naomi Watts as Gertrude and Clive Owen as Claudius.
IFC Films plans a theatrical release later this year. The film, which had its world premiere at Sundance in 2018, was adapted for the screen by Semi Chellas, from Lisa Klein’s 2006 young adult novel Ophelia.
Set in the 14th century, but spoken in a contemporary voice, Ophelia puts the focus on the drama’s young ...
IFC Films has picked up U.S. rights to Ophelia, the reimagining of Shakespeare's Hamlet by Australian filmmaker Claire McCarthy and Covert Media.
Star Wars leading lady Daisy Ridley plays the protagonist. George MacKay co-stars as Hamlet, alongside Naomi Watts as Gertrude and Clive Owen as Claudius.
IFC Films plans a theatrical release later this year. The film, which had its world premiere at Sundance in 2018, was adapted for the screen by Semi Chellas, from Lisa Klein’s 2006 young adult novel Ophelia.
Set in the 14th century, but spoken in a contemporary voice, Ophelia puts the focus on the drama’s young ...
Star Wars leading lady Daisy Ridley plays the protagonist. George MacKay co-stars as Hamlet, alongside Naomi Watts as Gertrude and Clive Owen as Claudius.
IFC Films plans a theatrical release later this year. The film, which had its world premiere at Sundance in 2018, was adapted for the screen by Semi Chellas, from Lisa Klein’s 2006 young adult novel Ophelia.
Set in the 14th century, but spoken in a contemporary voice, Ophelia puts the focus on the drama’s young ...
Theatrical release to come later in year. Naomi Watts, Clive Owen also star.
IFC Films is acquiring Us rights from Covert Media to Ophelia, the reimagining of Shakespeare’s Hamlet that stars Daisy Ridley from the Star Wars franchise alongside Naomi Watts and Clive Owen.
Australian filmmaker Claire McCarthy directed from Semi Chellas’ adapted screenplay based on the novel by Lisa Klein. IFC plans a theatrical release this year on the drama, which takes place in the original play’s Danish setting and uses contemporary dialogue.
Ophelia premiered at Sundance 2018 and switches the focus to Hamlet’s potential wife, here presented as a rowdy,...
IFC Films is acquiring Us rights from Covert Media to Ophelia, the reimagining of Shakespeare’s Hamlet that stars Daisy Ridley from the Star Wars franchise alongside Naomi Watts and Clive Owen.
Australian filmmaker Claire McCarthy directed from Semi Chellas’ adapted screenplay based on the novel by Lisa Klein. IFC plans a theatrical release this year on the drama, which takes place in the original play’s Danish setting and uses contemporary dialogue.
Ophelia premiered at Sundance 2018 and switches the focus to Hamlet’s potential wife, here presented as a rowdy,...
- 2/9/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Hamlet gets a perspective flip in this feminist-minded revision, based on the book by Lisa Klein – and, of course, Shakespeare’s play. (I promise not to seed this review with references to the play to show that I took high school lit.) Ophelia, Hamlet’s dogged, innocent admirer ultimately driven to madness and possibly/probably suicide by his cruelty and accidental murder of her father, is here reimagined as a spunky, self-possessed firebrand able to hold her own against any man. A perfectly 21st-century heroine, in other words.
It’s interesting that Ophelia works backward from the premise that Hamlet’s version of the character is in need of “fixing.” I will not deny that many aspects of the Bard’s work are of course Problematic, but it’s uncharitable to say the least to write off the original Ophelia and her treatment as misogynist when the play pays strenuous...
It’s interesting that Ophelia works backward from the premise that Hamlet’s version of the character is in need of “fixing.” I will not deny that many aspects of the Bard’s work are of course Problematic, but it’s uncharitable to say the least to write off the original Ophelia and her treatment as misogynist when the play pays strenuous...
- 1/26/2018
- by Daniel Schindel
- The Film Stage
Elsinore is a less gloomy place with women in the foreground in Ophelia, an engaging reshaping of Hamlet in which the prince’s lady love takes center stage. Based on Lisa Klein’s well-received 2006 young adult novel, this vigorous, colorful and clever melodrama smartly rethinks both the play and the character, making her a far more proactive figure than Shakespeare did in addition to entirely reimagining her fate.
With Star Wars leading lady Daisy Ridley playing the title character and dialogue more accessible to a general public than the Bard’s tends to be, this handsome film could score...
With Star Wars leading lady Daisy Ridley playing the title character and dialogue more accessible to a general public than the Bard’s tends to be, this handsome film could score...
- 1/23/2018
- by Todd McCarthy
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
We’ve had “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead” and “Fortinbras Gets Drunk,” and now there’s “Ophelia,” an intelligent and gorgeous spin on Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” from the point of view of the melancholy prince’s beloved. “Hamlet” of course has its share of memorable characters — recall the bit player who claimed that the play was about a grave digger who meets a prince — but this provocative adaptation of Lisa Klein’s novel gives an oft-maligned character purpose and agency. It is not betrayal and madness that bewitches this Ophelia but toxic masculinity. Director Claire McCarthy (“The Waiting City”) and adapter Semi Chellas (“Mad...
- 1/23/2018
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
Shakespeare has always been ripe for reinvention, and Claire McCarthy’s “Ophelia,” a reworking of “Hamlet” from the perspective of his seemingly doomed lover, is the kind of new spin on one of the ol’ Bard’s most beloved stories that should only reestablish the force of Shakespeare’s original words. And yet McCarthy’s film, based on Lisa Klein’s 2006 novel of the same name, takes its best ideas (and its best performers) and traps them in a cheap narrative that would will likely rank among the worst of many Shakespearean adaptations. It’s such a good idea on paper, rendered totally inert on the screen.
At least there’s Daisy Ridley as the eponymous Ophelia, introduced as a “willful girl.” Literally locked out of the very library she’s so desperate to enter (“Ophelia” is rarely subtle), Ridley brings a grace that makes it clear why both Queen...
At least there’s Daisy Ridley as the eponymous Ophelia, introduced as a “willful girl.” Literally locked out of the very library she’s so desperate to enter (“Ophelia” is rarely subtle), Ridley brings a grace that makes it clear why both Queen...
- 1/23/2018
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
With Knightley starring as Colette – alongside Rupert Everett’s Oscar Wilde biopic and Daisy Ridley as Hamlet’s Ophelia – the period drama has never looked so interesting
The Sundance film festival has sold itself for 40 years as the champion of cutting-edge, radical independent cinema; not a natural habitat for the stiffly costumed and perfectly spoken habits of the literary-inflected costume drama. But this year a choice selection of such films have found their way to Sundance, at a time when the period film has gained considerable currency as an illuminator of contemporary social issues. The Happy Prince, Rupert Everett’s Oscar Wilde biopic about the writer’s final years will be joined at the festival by Ophelia, a reworking of the Hamlet story starring Star Wars’ Daisy Ridley, and Colette, a biopic of the transgressive French literary icon that stars costume-pic veteran Keira Knightley.
All three can claim to be...
The Sundance film festival has sold itself for 40 years as the champion of cutting-edge, radical independent cinema; not a natural habitat for the stiffly costumed and perfectly spoken habits of the literary-inflected costume drama. But this year a choice selection of such films have found their way to Sundance, at a time when the period film has gained considerable currency as an illuminator of contemporary social issues. The Happy Prince, Rupert Everett’s Oscar Wilde biopic about the writer’s final years will be joined at the festival by Ophelia, a reworking of the Hamlet story starring Star Wars’ Daisy Ridley, and Colette, a biopic of the transgressive French literary icon that stars costume-pic veteran Keira Knightley.
All three can claim to be...
- 1/20/2018
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
Photo Credit: Julie Vrabelova
Coming out the Cannes Film Festival, here’s a first look at director Claire McCarthy’s Ophelia.
Currently in production in Prague, the cast includes Daisy Ridley (upcoming Murder on the Orient Express, Star Wars: The Last Jedi), Two-time Academy Award nominee Naomi Watts (Divergent series, The Impossible), Golden Globe winning and Academy Award nominee Clive Owen (Closer, Children of Men, upcoming Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets), George MacKay (Captain Fantastic, Pride), Devon Terrell (Barry) and Tom Felton (Harry Potter series).
Set in the 14th Century but spoken in a contemporary voice, Ophelia is a dynamic re-imagining of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Written by Semi Chellas, Ophelia is adapted from the book by Lisa Klein.
Ophelia (Ridley) takes center stage as the Queen’s (Watts) most trusted lady-in-waiting. Beautiful and intelligent, she soon captures the attention of the handsome Prince Hamlet and a forbidden love blossoms.
Coming out the Cannes Film Festival, here’s a first look at director Claire McCarthy’s Ophelia.
Currently in production in Prague, the cast includes Daisy Ridley (upcoming Murder on the Orient Express, Star Wars: The Last Jedi), Two-time Academy Award nominee Naomi Watts (Divergent series, The Impossible), Golden Globe winning and Academy Award nominee Clive Owen (Closer, Children of Men, upcoming Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets), George MacKay (Captain Fantastic, Pride), Devon Terrell (Barry) and Tom Felton (Harry Potter series).
Set in the 14th Century but spoken in a contemporary voice, Ophelia is a dynamic re-imagining of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Written by Semi Chellas, Ophelia is adapted from the book by Lisa Klein.
Ophelia (Ridley) takes center stage as the Queen’s (Watts) most trusted lady-in-waiting. Beautiful and intelligent, she soon captures the attention of the handsome Prince Hamlet and a forbidden love blossoms.
- 5/21/2017
- by Michelle Hannett
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
English actress Daisy Head has come aboard the Claire McCarthy-directed romantic drama Ophelia, a re-imaging to Shakespeare’s classic tragedy. The pic stars Daisy Ridley as the title character who falls in a forbidden love with Prince Hamlet and must decide between her true love or her own life in order to protect a very dangerous secret. Head will play Christina, a mean girl in court with Ophelia. Semi Chellas wrote the screenplay, based on Lisa Klein’s novel. Naomi…...
- 5/18/2017
- Deadline
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