Oscar-winning actor Riz Ahmed has been roped in to play a modern-day Hamlet reported Variety.
According to the publication, Riz Ahmed will be teaming up with his The Long Goodbye co-writer and director Aneil Karia for a London-set British Indian adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
The pair won the 2022 best live-action short film Oscar for their last collaboration.
The Long Goodbye starred Riz Ahmed and was helmed by Aneil Karia.
Talking about their upcoming venture, Ahmed and Karia said: “This is a Hamlet about race, mental health and inequality, which asks if setting things right means setting fire to the old order.”
