While many gamers are eagerly awaiting the arrival of Grand Theft Auto 6, there’s still a ton of activity around the current iteration of the mega-blockbuster franchise. Fans are still role-playing on private servers, goofing around in the game’s online mode, or — in the case of two filmmakers — staging a film adaptation of one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays. Grand Theft Hamlet is co-directed by the married couple Pinny Grylls and Sam Crane. The movie was shot entirely within Grand Theft Auto Online during the global pandemic; it’s coming to select theaters in the United States and streaming globally.
The two directors of Grand Theft Hamlet were out-of-work actors playing GTA Online together during the lockdowns in the United Kingdom. After the usual amount of gunplay and antics, the two found a theatre in the game, and decided to stage a production of Shakespare’s Hamlet inside the game. The
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