Hamlet (2007/II)

Director:

Alexander Fodor

Writers:

Alexander Fodor (writer)
William Shakespeare (play)

Release Date:

2007 (UK)

Genre:

Thriller

Tagline:

Not just another ghost story...

Plot:

Set in a surrealistic, nightmarish, Kafkaesque no man's land, this version of the famous Shakespeare play centres on the ghostly...

Plot Keywords:

Art House | British | One Word Title | London England | Shakespeare's Hamlet

Cast

William Belchambers	...	Hamlet (as Wilson Belchambers)
Max Davis	...	Osric
Alexander Fodor	...	The Priest
James Frail	...	The Ghost
Alan Hanson	...	Claudius
Keaton Makki	...	Marchellus
Thomas Matthews	...	Bernardo
Patrick Monckeberg	...	Assassin (as Patrick Schmick)
Simon Nader	...	Guildenstern
Lydia Piechowiak	...	Polonia
Katie Reddin-Clancy	...	Horatio
Tallulah Sheffield	...	Ophelia
Di Sherlock	...	Gertrude
Hanne Steen	...	Reynaldo
David Thompson	...	The Gravedigger
Jason Wing	...	Laertes

Runtime:

UK:131 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Filming Locations:

London, England, UK

Company:

Zed Resistor Company

Trivia:

The whole production was shot in just 15 days in July 2006, giving a minutes per day ratio of 10 minutes every day. No shooting day overshot by more than one hour even though each day was scheduled for only eight hours. On the final day of the shoot (on Southend beach) 3 and a half hours were lost due to the tide being in. Alexander Fodor totally revised the shots, heavily pre-prepped the actors and charged ahead giving them only one take per shot. The end result being that the day finished 10 minutes ahead of schedule.

Goofs:

Continuity: On the first day of shooting James Frail, playing the ghost, insisted on keeping his blue-eye contact lenses in all the time, even though they had picked up dirt. This resulted in a scratched cornea, with a massive bruising effect looking like a black eye. To get round this you'll notice some scenes where the Ghost has suddenly become "Joe Cool" and is now wearing sunglasses (the director's).

Quotes:

The Ghost: If thou didst ever thy dear father love, revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.

Movie Connections:

Version of Hamlet (2011)