Riz Ahmed will play modern-day Hamlet in British-Indian version

Riz Ahmed, a British-Pakistani actor, is poised to work on a modern adaptation of William Shakespeare’s classic Hamlet with Surge director Aneil Karia.

The Academy Award-winning actor will portray the title Prince of Denmark, while Joe Alwyn of The Favourite will play Laertes.

Michael Lesslie, best known for his 2015 version of Macbeth, will pen the script.

The vengeful tale will be retold by Ahmed and Karia, and it will be released by WME Independent at the Cannes Film Festival.

Speaking about their upcoming project, Ahmed and Karia stated, “It is a Hamlet about race, psychological well being and inequality, which asks if setting issues proper means setting hearth to the previous 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,” they stated.

The film, which was first announced in 2017, is set in modern-day London and will include Hindu temples, British high society, and the city’s subway system. In the aftermath of his father’s assassination, Ahmed claimed his Hamlet will publicly battle with mental health concerns and grapple with societal corruption, according to Deadline.

Hamlet is Ahmed and Karia’s second collaboration. The Long Goodbye earned the Academy Award for best live-action short film earlier this year.

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