Did you know TWILIGHT director Catherine Hardwicke was working on an updated version of William Shakespeare’s HAMLET? No? What about the fact that Emile Hirsch is set to star? This is all new to you too huh? Well let me tell you all about it!
Hirsch recently chatted with Collider about a few of his upcoming projects, including Catherine Hardwicke’s HAMLET. It was during this chat that Hirsch clarified a few things about this HAMLET flick that might be of interest to our readers:
“I’m working on a modern-day younger adaptation of “Hamlet”, in verse, molded to be almost like this supernatural horror movie. Where it’s not a horror-slasher movie, it’s like a suspense-horror. It’s almost like mixing “Hamlet” with “The Shining” a little bit and making this kind of scary/cool vision of the play. But all geared towards–all the cast will be much younger and it’s geared towards a younger audience. Catherine Hardwicke, who did “Twilight” and “Lords of Dogtown”, we’re working on that together right now.”
Well that’s all kinds of intriguing! Shakespeare’s always been known to add a genre element to his stories, more notably MACBETH. So the fact that there’s going to be a darker genre version of HAMLET heading our way has me tickled pink. And it stars Emile Hirsch! You can head right over HERE to check out the whole interview. Shooting on HAMLET starts this October.
Evan Rachel Wood starred in Hardwicke’s directoral debut – THIRTEEN.
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