Deadline reports that Tom Felton has joined the cast of Ophelia along with Clive Owen, George MacKay, Devon Terrell and previously announced Daisy Ridley and Naomi Watts. Tom will be portraying Laertes in this newest adaption of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Laertes is the son of Polonius and the brother of Ophelia, Hamlet’s love interest. Filming starts later this month in Prague.

Ridley stars as Ophelia, the Queen’s (Watts) most trusted lady-in-waiting. She soon captures the attention of the handsome Prince Hamlet and a forbidden love blossoms. As war brews, lust and betrayal are tearing Elsinore Castle apart from within and Ophelia must decide between her true love or her own life in order to protect a very dangerous secret. Semi Chellas adapted Lisa Klein’s novel.

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