Mubi, an art house streamer and distributor, has acquired the US cinema rights and the global streaming rights for a documentary made entirely in Grand Theft Auto Online, which has a Shakespearean twist.
This documentary is Grand Theft Hamlet, and tells the story of two unemployed actors who went about staging a performance of Shakespeare’s tragedy within GTA Online. It was directed by Pinny Grylls and Sam Crane.
“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy,” Hamlet says to Horatio in the play, and while he probably wasn’t chatting about video games, I feel this quote still fits here.
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