Shall I compare thee to this summer’s Hamlet re-imagining?
Thou art more lovely and less filled with CGI than The Lion King.
Rough Detective Pikachu do shake the aging Poms of May,
And summer’s release schedule hath all too short a date.
Sometime too hot the eye of blockbuster tentpoles shine,
And often is Daisy Ridley’s complexion dimmed, because we keep thinking of her as Rey;
And every Hamlet re-imagining since 1994 sometime declines,
By chance, or Hollywood’s clumsy course, untrimmed;
But thy eternal summer of Hamlet re-imaginings shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that forgettable film thou ow’st,
Nor shall mainstream cinema brag thou wand’rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to Time Clive Owen’s celebrity grow’st.
So long as audiences can pay, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to this, the royalty-free.
Which is to say: here’s the trailer for Ophelia, director Claire McCarthy’s beautifully-shot adaptation of a young-adult novel wherein the protagonist of Hamlet is now a different titular character—as played by Daisy Ridley. Naomi Watts, Clive Owen, and George MacKay co-star. But it’s probably far better than The Lion King (2019), and it hits theaters just before that, arriving June 28.
