Academy Award Winner Chloé Zhao to Direct Hamnet Based on Maggie O'Farrell's Multi-Award Winning Novel
The film stars Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Emily Watson, and Joe Alwyn.
Academy Award® winner Chloé Zhao will direct Hamnet, based on Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 New York Times bestselling novel.
The novel won a National Book Critics Circle Award and The Women’s Prize for Fiction. It has sold 2 million copies in the UK and US and has been translated into 40 languages.
Zhao wrote the screenplay with O’Farrell.
Academy Award® nominees Jessie Buckley (Women Talking, The Bride) and Paul Mescal (Gladiator II, All of Us Strangers) will star in the film alongside Academy Award® nominee Emily Watson (Breaking The Waves, Punch-Drunk Love) and Joe Alwyn (The Brutalist, The Favourite).
The film is being produced by Amblin Partners, Hera Pictures, and Neal Street Productions in association with Book of Shadows. Producers are Liza Marshall, Pippa Harris, Sam Mendes, and Steven Spielberg. Executive producers are Kristie Macosko Krieger, Nic Gonda and Laurie Borg.
Focus will release Hamnet in the US with Universal Pictures International handling the rest of the world.