A first trailer has arrived online for the director Claire McCarthy’s upcoming romantic drama Ophelia. A reimagining of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the film is based upon Lisa Klein’s book of the same name and stars Daisy Ridley in the title role alongside Naomi Watts, George MacKay, Clive Owen, Tom Felton, Devon Terrell, Daisy Head, Dominic Mafham, and Sebastian De Souza; watch it here…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiuG3dfNhmU&t=63s
Set in the 14th Century but spoken in a contemporary voice, Ophelia is a dynamic re-imagining of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. 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 (MacKay) and a forbidden love blossoms. As war brews, lust and betrayal are tearing Elsinore Castle apart from within and Ophelia must decide between her true love or her own life in order to protect a very dangerous secret.
