Hamnet Trailer and Poster with Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal
Focus Features has unveiled the official trailer and poster for Hamnet, the upcoming drama opening in select theaters on Thursday, November 27, 2025. The film will then open nationwide on Friday, December 12.
Academy Award winner Chloé Zhao directs Hamnet, which is based on Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 New York Times bestselling novel. Zhao’s credits include Songs My Brothers Taught Me (2015), The Rider (2017), Nomadland (2020), and Eternals (2021).
Zhao and O’Farrell co-wrote the screenplay for the film. The movie tells the powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare’s timeless masterpiece, Hamlet.
Academy Award nominees Jessie Buckley (The Bride!, Women Talking) and Paul Mescal (Gladiator II, All of Us Strangers) will star in the film alongside Academy Award nominee Emily Watson (Breaking the Waves, Punch-Drunk Love) and Joe Alwyn (The Brutalist, The Favourite).
Hamnet is produced by Amblin Partners, Hera Pictures, and Neal Street Productions in association with Book of Shadows. The producers are Liza Marshall, Pippa Harris, Sam Mendes, and Steven Spielberg.
The film’s executive producers include Kristie Macosko Krieger, Nic Gonda, and Laurie Borg. The novel, which is described as follows, won a National Book Critics Circle Award and The Women’s Prize for Fiction.
“England, 1580: The Black Death creeps across the land, an ever-present threat, infecting the healthy, the sick, the old, and the young alike. The end of days is near, but life always goes on.
“A young Latin tutor—penniless and bullied by a violent father—falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman.
“Agnes is a wild creature who walks her family’s land with a falcon on her glove and is known throughout the countryside for her unusual gifts as a healer, understanding plants and potions better than she does people.
“Once she settles with her husband on Henley Street in Stratford-upon-Avon, she becomes a fiercely protective mother and a steadfast, centrifugal force in the life of her young husband, whose career on the London stage is just taking off when his beloved young son succumbs to sudden fever.”
