Oscar Winners Riz Ahmed, Aneil Karia Reteam for Modern ‘Hamlet’ Adaptation

 Riz Ahmed and Aneil Karia are joining again for an advanced, London-set British Indian variation of Shakespeare's "Hamlet."

The pair won the 2022 best surprisingly realistic short movie Oscar for "The Long Goodbye," which they co-composed, Ahmed featured in and Karia coordinated.

WME Independent will send off worldwide deals at the Cannes Film Market, while co-addressing North American privileges with CAA.

Ahmed stars as Hamlet, tormented by his dad's phantom and headed to progressively unsound levels. Moving from world class London to the city's underground, from Hindu sanctuaries to destitute makeshift camps, he takes rash and rough measures to vindicate his dad's homicide, eventually scrutinizing his own part in the family's defilement and who he has become.

Morfydd Clark ("Saint Maud") is connected to play Ophelia and Joe Alywn ("Conversations with Friends") will play Laertes.

Karia, whose component debut "Flood" played in rivalry at Sundance, will coordinate the screenplay from Michael Lesslie ("Macbeth"). James Wilson ("Under the Skin") will create alongside Lesslie's Storyteller Productions ("The Rescue") and Ahmed and Allie Moore for their Left Handed Films ("Mogul Mowgli")

"This is a Hamlet about race, psychological well-being and disparity, which inquires as to whether fixing things implies burning down the old request. Our Hamlet is an outcast in a well off British Indian family, who begins to scrutinize his family members' profound quality and his own mental stability in the wake of experiencing his dad's phantom. Hamlet's ridiculous journey for retribution against his dad's executioner will be told with a strength and direness that seizes crowds and won't give up," said Ahmed and Karia.

"We need to proceed with what we began with 'The Long Goodbye,' in recounting to a story that is both completely grounded and legitimate however at that point drives right into it, spine chiller, classification, and verse. We've both felt outwardly of Shakespeare, however as South Asians likewise profoundly associate with what these accounts are about - subjects like family, honor, and obligation. In this way, our point is to rejuvenate Hamlet by setting it in our own local area. We need to air out this ageless story for a more extensive crowd - with a different cast, a contemporary London setting, and by infusing traditional refrain with the energy of rap, a sort which we have both turned out in for a really long time," Ahmed and Karia added.

WME Independent co-heads Deborah McIntosh and Alex Walton said: "This is a form of 'Hamlet' not at all like any you've seen previously. It will be instinctive, present day, and will address current subjects. There could be no greater pair than Riz and Aneil to rejuvenate this film with their amazing and demonstrated narrating capacities."