The film is based on Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel and tells the story of William Shakespeare (played by Paul Mescal) and his wife Agnes (Buckley) as their son Hamnet dies at a young age, inspiring Shakespeare to write Hamlet.
Ahead of the premiere screening at the Academy Museum, Spielberg told the crowd, “Directors are always searching for stories to tell, but sometimes the story tells us which director it wants to belong to. Chloé Zhao was the director that Maggie O’Farrell’s book Hamnet found its way to and there was no other choice that could have possibly been made in the world.”
He pointed at the theater’s screen, noting that these are “the kinds of screens that we are fighting the tides…
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