“The actor is in negotiations to step into the role of Hamlet for Netflix. This version will be a contemporary adaptation which he developed with writer Mike Lesslie (Macbeth, Assassins Creed) whom he’d known from college.
Set in a modern-day London of economic and political uncertainty, the story follows the intersecting themes of familial honor, moral duty and dynastic corruption.”
2017 y’all… literally that this is happening before my eyes in my lifetime… it’s like, inconceivable to me. but also? it kinda speaks volumes about hollywood that he is the first ASIAN male not even the first Pakistani Male, like ASIAN. ??? think about that
