Deadline reports that McKellen has signed on to star in Hamlet Revenant, a project currently getting shopped around at the Cannes marketplace.
A Royal Affair star Mikkel Boe Følsgaard will sink his teeth into the famously upset Danish prince, and McKellen’s will appear alongside international co-stars Gabriel Byrne and Connie Nielsen as well.
All the stuffy high school study in the world couldn’t rob Shakespeare’s tragedy of its psychological unrest or violent climax — looks like Justin Kurzel’s hardcore Macbeth will soon get a partner piece.
And today brings the news that a new project will allow him to blend his passions for the proscenium and the closed set in a revisiting of a signature role that McKellen last tackled way back in 1971.