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Watch the trailer for Grand Theft Hamlet, a movie that delivers on its title's promise

Ive seen a lot of interpretations of Hamlet different actors taking on Shakespeares iconic story in both stage and film formats. But Grand Theft Hamlet offers something Ive never seen before, which is a production of the play set in the world of GTA Online. The upcoming film isnt just a beat-for-beat recreation of the play within the game, though; its actually a documentary about the projects staging and organization, which took some serious doing. Co-directed by the U.K.-based married couple Pinny Grylls and Sam Crane, the former being a documentarian and the latter an actor, Grand Theft Hamlet came about because of the pandemic. With the world in various states of lockdown and quarantining, and Crane out of work as an actor given that whole situation, the pair turned to video games as a place to stage a play, and filmed this documentary about the process. The result looks both hilarious and deadly serious, in turns, as the trailer makes very clear. The bizarre project keeps getting i...
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