18 December 2020
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Noomi Rapace is set to star in a gender-swapped big-screen adaptation of William Shakespeare s Hamlet.
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo star will play the lead in the upcoming drama, with Swedish-Danish-Iranian filmmaker Ali Abbasi helming the project.
The playwright s tale focuses on the ghost of the King of Denmark, who tells his son Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark, to avenge his murder by killing the new king, Hamlet s uncle, prompting the young royal to descend into madness.
It is understood that Rapace will be playing a female version of the Prince of Denmark in the new movie.
Noomi Rapace To Lead Ali Abbasi s Hamlet
FOLLOW US ON: Los Angeles: Noomi Rapace, popular for films like “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo” and “Prometheus”, has come on board to feature in the new film adaptation of Shakespeare’s play “Hamlet”. The film will be helmed by Ali Abbasi, known for directing “Border”, the Oscar -nominated sleeper hit. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Icelandic writer Sjon, who co-wrote Robert Eggers’ upcoming “The Northman”, is working on the script. “Hamlet”, the play in which the titular Danish prince enacts bloody revenge on his uncle for killing his father and marrying his mother, has been a dream project for Rapace, the Scandinavian actor said.
17 December 2020
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According to Deadline, filmmaker Ali Abbasi is creating a gender-swap version of The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark which will see Noomi in the lead role.
Icelandic screenwriter Sjón - who co-wrote Robert Eggers upcoming movie The Northman - is penning the script, and Stine Meldgaard Madsen is producing for Meta Film in conjunction with Boom Films.
The Prometheus actress admits landing the part is a dream come and she believes the movie will be truly ground-breaking .
She said: Hamlet is a dream project in its purest and most explosive way. I’ve been hoping, dreaming, wishing for this as long as I’ve been an actress. I base this as much on the material as on the creative alliance that surrounds it. Ali, Sjón and Meta are for me creatives on the highest level. They’re truly brave and ground-breaking in their different areas and always on top of their game. To take on a Danish story with a Scandinavian touch and bring it out in
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Hamlet, directed by the Iranian-Danish director of
Border, Ali Abbasi.
The adaptation of the William Shakespeare classic is being written by Iceland’s Sjón and principal photography is scheduled for autumn 2021.
The production will reunite Abbasi with Denmark’s Meta Film, following their collaboration on
Border, which won the Un Certain Regard prize at Cannes in 2018. Producer is Stine Meldgaard Madsen and the feature will be produced in collaboration with Boom Films.
It marks the third feature from Abbasi, who made his debut with
Shelley, which played in the Panorama competition of the Berlinale in 2016.
The filmmaker said of the upcoming feature: “Shakespeare stole the Hamlet story from us. Now it’s our turn to claim it back and make a version so insane and so bloody that make him turn in his grave.”