IFC Films will release in the U.S. Ophelia, the Claire McCarthy-directed reimagining of Shakespeare’s Hamet that stars Star Wars’ Daisy Ridley, George MacKay, Naomi Watts, and Clive Owen. Pic premiered at Sundance. Pic’s set in medieval Denmark but spoken in a sharp, contemporary voice and shifts the perspective of…

Just as Time’s Up heats up comes Claire McCarthy’s Ophelia, a great twist on a Shakespearean classic, specifically Hamlet.  Star Wars: The Last Jedi‘s Daisy Ridley stars as Hamlet’s g.f. in a film that’s told from her perspective, and yes, it is wonderfully, and intentionally, subversive without giving too much away…

English actress Daisy Head has come aboard the Claire McCarthy-directed romantic drama Ophelia, a re-imaging to Shakespeare’s classic tragedy. The pic stars Daisy Ridley as the title character who falls in a forbidden love with Prince Hamlet and must decide between her true love or her own life in order to protect a…

EXCLUSIVE: Daisy Ridley and Naomi Watts’ Ophelia has found its Hamlet — and more. Captain Fantastic‘s George MacKay has joined the reimagining of Shakespeare’s famed tragedy playing the Prince of Denmark. Clive Owen (Claudius), Harry Potter‘s Tom Felton (Laertes) and Devon Terrell (Horatio) have also boarded the Covert…

EXCLUSIVE: Daisy Ridley and Naomi Watts are in final talks to star in Ophelia, a re-imagining of Shakespeare’s classic Hamlet through the eyes of the play’s famously doomed heroine. Covert Media has boarded to finance and handle international sales at Cannes. In Shakespeare’s play, Ophelia is one of only two female…