The trailer previews the love story between William (Mescal) and Agnes (Buckley) Shakespeare during the 16th century, along with their beloved son Hamnet.\u00a0But before too long, tragedy strikes the family, resulting in heartbreak, all while the playwright works to create his play Hamlet.<\/p>\n
The film is based\u00a0on Maggie O\u2019Farrell\u2019s 2020 New York Times bestselling\u00a0novel, which has sold 2 million copies in the UK and US and has\u00a0been translated into 40 languages. O’Farrell worked with Zhao on the film’s screenplay.\u00a0The book has also been adapted for the stage\u00a0by\u00a0Lolita Chakrabarti<\/a>, and was recently played in the West End in\u00a0a production directed by\u00a0Erica Whyman<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n In a\u00a0Vanity Fair<\/a> article, it was revealed that the movie recreates Shakespeare\u2019s Globe theater during 1600, the year in which the original production of\u00a0Hamlet takes place in the film.\u00a0\u201cFor the first two days in the Globe, I was genuinely lost. I felt untethered,\u201d said Jessie Buckley<\/a>, who plays Agnes Shakespeare. \u201cYou\u2019re at the mecca of where\u00a0Hamlet\u00a0is born\u2014everything that we\u2019ve gone through was culminating to this point.\u201d Read the full story here<\/a>\u00a0and check out newly released first-look photos of the theater here<\/a>.<\/p>\n In a previous interview<\/a> with British Vogue, Mescal shared, “That book \u2013 it\u2019s just devastating. I can\u2019t wait. If I told a younger version of myself that this would be [shooting] this year, I wouldn\u2019t believe it. I\u2019ve obviously been in a film with Jessie before [Maggie Gyllenhaal<\/a>\u2019s The Lost Daughter] but we\u2019ve never shared the screen or a working process together. I think she\u2019s one of our present-day greats. And Chlo\u00e9 is somebody I can\u2019t wait to get in the weeds with, and get into the heads of those characters.”<\/p>\n Check out the poster below:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The full trailer and official poster have been unveiled for Chlo\u00e9 Zhao\u2019s Hamnet,\u00a0starring\u00a0Paul Mescal, Olivier Award-winner Jessie Buckley,\u00a0Emily…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-68100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Video:](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/HAMNET_OfficialPoster.jpg\" "\\"Video:")
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