Focus Features Sets Awards-Season Release For Chloé Zhao’s ‘Hamnet’ Starring Jessie Buckley And Paul Mescal

Focus Features has set a limited Thanksgiving release of November 27 for two-time Oscar winner Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet. The movie will go wide on December 12.

Hamnet, which Zhao co-wrote with Maggie O’Farrell, tells the powerful love story that inspired the creation of Shakespeare’s timeless masterpiece Hamlet. 

The pic stars Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Emily Watson and Joe Alwyn. Producers are Liza Marshall, Pippa Harris, Nic Gonda, Sam Mendes and Steven Spielberg. EPs are Kristie Macosko Krieger, Laurie Borg and Zhao.

Hamnet is based on O’Farrell’s 2020 New York Times bestselling novel, which has sold 2 million copies in the UK and U.S. and has been translated into 40 languages.