The experience taught director Chloé Zhao that bigger isn’t always better.
Chloé Zhao is currently promoting her follow-up to Marvel Studios’ Eternals, an adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s novel Hamnet. The 2020 book is based on William Shakespeare and his wife as they grieve the loss of one of their children, which would go on to inspire Hamlet. It makes sense that after making a movie where the Academy Award-winning director’s voice felt pulled in many directions, a more intimate movie would be her next choice.
In an interview with Vanity Fair, Zhao talked about how her experience on Eternals informed her approach to Hamnet. The filmmaker also said working with a Disney budget on a Marvel property really pushed her range.
“Eternals prepared me for Hamnet because it’s world-building.
