Hamnet Release Date Set for Oscar-Winning Director’s Movie With Paul Mescal

A release date for Hamnet has been set.

Hamnet is a new movie that is written and directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Chloé Zhao. The film stars Paul Mescal, Jessie Buckley, and more.

When is the release date for Hamnet?

Focus Features will release Hamnet in limited theaters in the United States on November 27, 2025. It will then expand nationwide on December 12, 2025.

“From Academy Award-winning writer/director Chloé Zhao, Hamnet tells the powerful love story that inspired the creation of Shakespeare’s timeless masterpiece, Hamlet,” the official logline reads.

The cast of the movie also includes Emily Watson and Joe Alwyn. Liza Marshall, Pippa Harris, Nic Gonda, Sam Mendes, and Steven Spielberg serve as producers on the movie, while Zhao, Kristie Macosko Krieger, and Laurie Borg serve as executive producers.

Zhao made her feature film directorial debut in 2015 with Songs My Brothers Taught Me. She followed that up with The Rider in 2017 before then making 2020’s Nomadland, which earned her a Best Director Academy Award. Nomadland also won Best Picture at the Oscars that year. After Nomadland, Zhao made the MCU Eternals movie, which was released in 2021.

Hamnet is based on a novel written by Maggie O’Farrell that was published in 2020.

“England, 1580: The Black Death creeps across the land, an ever-present threat, infecting the healthy, the sick, the old, and the young alike,” a description of the book reads. “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.”

Source: Focus Features

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