We bought a film made in Grand Theft Auto earlier than GTA 6. Titled Grand Theft Hamlet, the upcoming documentary goes behind the scenes of Sam Crane and Mark Oosterveen’s efforts to stage a Shakespeare manufacturing throughout the world of Grand Theft Auto On-line. Watch the brand new trailer under.
Because the story goes, the then-out-of-work actors got here up with the thought after they bought sucked into GTA On-line throughout one of many UK’s a number of pandemic lockdowns. As proven within the trailer, nonetheless, recruiting of us to audition in the midst of gameplay proved to be a troublesome process.
“We’re placing on a manufacturing of Hamlet in GTA On-line for the primary time ever. We’re searching for actors, so come and audition,” one in every of them says within the clip, solely to be gunned down.
The pair’s efforts proceed all through the trailer as they beg different gamers to listen to them out. Certainly one of them laments that “nobody’s going to come back” to audition as a result of “it’s not an actual factor,” however the different insists, “It’s actual to me.”
Simply when all hope seems to be misplaced, they arrive throughout of us who’re keen to assist. This included Crane’s accomplice, Pinny Grylls, who ended up co-directing the documentary with him.
Distributed by MUBI, Grand Theft Hamlet has received a number of awards on the movie pageant circuit and presently has a 94% rating on Rotten Tomatoes with 36 critiques. It opens in US theaters on January seventeenth.
