Cannes: Ian McKellen Joins Hamlet Revenant
Promising to bring to the surface the dark secrets that harbour in the human psyche, Ian McKellen, Gabriel Byrne and Connie Nielsen are set to star in Hamlet Revenant, directed by Ken McMullen which Danish sales company TrustNordisk has boarded for worldwide sales, reports Variety.
The movie is an adaptation of Shakespeare’s iconic play Hamlet and follows a character caught amidst treasonous political upheavals, family crisis, sexual tensions and ambiguous friendships: a vortex of revenge, doubt and madness out of which no main character escapes.
Mikkel Boe Følsgaard will head the international cast playing the Danish prince, with newcomer Maria Boda set to play Ophelia. Co-starring Lambert Wilson, Dominique Pinon and Lex Shrapnel, Hamlet Revenant is scheduled to begin production in the second half of 2017.
