ON SCREEN | TRAILER FOR ‘HAMLET’ STARRING RIZ AHMED UNVEILED

IN CINEMAS 6TH FEB­RU­ARY 2025

Uni­ver­sal is delighted to unveil the offi­cial trail­er for Ham­let, a dar­ing and elec­tri­fy­ing reima­gin­ing of Wil­li­am Shakespeare’s time­less tragedy, star­ring Riz Ahmed (Academy Award win­ner — The Long Good­bye) in the icon­ic title role.  The film is dir­ec­ted by Aneil Karia (Academy Award win­ner — The Long Good­bye) and also stars Mor­fy­dd Clark (BAF­TA win­ner — Saint Maude), Joe Alwyn, Sheeba Chadha, Avijit Dutt with Art Malik (BAF­TA nom­in­ee — The Jew­el in the Crown) and Timothy Spall (BAF­TA win­ner — The Sixth Commandment).

A con­tem­por­ary adapt­a­tion of Shakespeare’s Ham­let set in a wealthy Brit­ish South-Asi­an fam­ily. Ham­let returns home for his father­’s funer­al and is shocked to learn that his uncle Claudi­us will now marry his wid­owed moth­er. When his father­’s ghost reveals that Claudi­us murdered him, Ham­let becomes con­sumed by revenge, ques­tion­ing the cor­rup­tion at the heart of the family’s busi­ness, and his own sanity.Riz Ahmed deliv­ers a raw, urgent per­form­ance, bring­ing razor-sharp intel­li­gence and emo­tion­al force to one of theatre’s most demand­ing roles. This con­tem­por­ary sta­ging explores power, para­noia and mor­al respons­ib­il­ity, mak­ing Shakespeare’s tragedy feel fiercely imme­di­ate and resonant.

Aneil Kari­a’s Ham­let blends clas­sic­al lan­guage with mod­ern design to cre­ate a tense, immers­ive exper­i­ence for a new generation.