Hamlet is having something of a renaissance in 2025. This year's edition of the Toronto International Film Festival featured three different takes on the idea, including Chloé Zhao's adaptation of the play's inspiration and Aneil Karia's rendition set in modern-day London. But the most out-there version came from Belle director Mamoru Hosoda, who transformed Shakespeare's revenge story into a fantastical epic called Scarlet, complete with time travel and dragons.
Hosoda likens the confluence to the late 1940s and early '50s, when acclaimed filmmakers like Akira Kurosawa and Orson Welles put out their own takes on Macbeth. "Perhaps there was …