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Focus Features Boards Chloé Zhao’s Adaptation Of ‘Hamnet’ Starring Jessie Buckley And Paul Mescal
Focus Features has landed domestic distribution rights to Chloé Zhao's next film Hamnet starring Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley.
Focus Features has landed domestic distribution rights to Chloé Zhao’s next film Hamnet starring Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley. The New York Times bestselling historical fiction novel imagines the story of Agnes – the wife of the world’s most famous writer, William Shakespeare – as she struggles to come to terms with the loss of her only son, Hamnet. Focus Features upcoming slate includes Piece By Piece, an animated biopic from Morgan Neville about the life of multifaceted global superstar Pharrell Williams told through the lens of LEGO bricks, Robert Eggers’ reimagining of Nosferatu, Edward Berger’s thriller Conclave, Steven Soderbergh’s upcoming crime-thriller Black Bag starring Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender, Yorgos Lanthimos’s next film Bugonia starring Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons and the highly anticipated third instalment of the Downton Abbey franchise, among others.
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