Project Detail

Ophelia

Name: Ophelia
Director: Claire McCarthy
Genre: Literary Adaptation, Woman Director, Drama
Released: 2018
Duration: 114 mins

Synopsis

Ophelia is the Queen of Denmark’s most trusted lady-in-waiting. She soon captures the attention of the handsome Prince Hamlet and a forbidden love blossoms. As war brews, lust and betrayal are tearing Elsinore Castle apart from within and Ophelia must decide between her true love or her own life in order to protect a very dangerous secret.
A reimagining of Shakespeare’s famed tragedy 'Hamlet'.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2018 - Premieres - World premiere

Details

Year: 2018
Type of project: Features
Running time: 114 mins
Director: Claire McCarthy
Producer: Paul Hanson, Daniel Bobker, Ehren Kruger, Sarah Curtis
Co-Producer: David Minkowski, Matthew Stillman
Executive Producer: Elissa Friedman, Sasha Shapiro, Anton Lessine
Screenwriter: Semi Chellas (adaptation), Lisa Klein (novel)
Director of Photography: Denson Baker
Principal cast: Daisy Ridley, Naomi Watts, George MacKay, Clive Owen, Tom Felton, Devon Terrell

Genre

Literary Adaptation Woman Director Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

US, UK coproduction

Covert Media (US), Bobker/Kruger Films (US), Forthcoming Films (UK)

Forthcoming Films

Sarah Curtis
46 Lamont Road
London
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Sales Company

Covert Media

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Suite 400
Los Angeles
CA 90212
USA

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