Ian McKellen is set to star in a new film titled Hamlet Within, which is a part-documentary feature that investigates the mythology around Shakespeare’s classic play.
Hamlet Within is described as a “radical cinematic investigation into the myth of Hamlet, its origins and its enduring appeal across cultures and systems of beliefs.” It’s explained that movie is a part-doc and part-fictional discourse, “it is shot in five acts and framed by a prelude and an epilogue and billed as a collage of acted monologues and staged dialogues referencing Hamlet’s most famous soliloquies.”
The movie also features the late John Shrapnel (101 Dalmatian), his son Lex Shrapnel (Captain America), Ben Turner (The Kite Runner), Gabriella Wright (The Tudors), Anne Sophie Refskou, Shakespeare scholar Richard Wilson and the late French philosopher Jacques Derrida, who passed away in 2004.
John Shrapnel and Derrida will appear through archive interviews that director Ken McMullen conducted over the years.
The film is an Art Cinema and Scape Films co-production and it will be released as an NFT collection on newly formed Blockchain ecosystem platform Cineverse, which allows filmmakers, distributors and producers to market their features directly.
Source: Deadline