Hirsch: 'I want Hamlet to be horror film'

Emile Hirsch has reportedly claimed that the new adaptation of Hamlet will be akin to a horror movie.

The Milk actor was cast in Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke's modern-day retelling of the Shakespeare tragedy in June.

The 24-year-old, who plays the film's titular character, revealed that the project will be supernaturally-based.

He told Sci-Fi Wire: "We want to make it like a horror, scary movie Hamlet. Like a supernatural with like a mystical bent to it, set in college and following these cool characters.

"It's all in Shakespeare verse, so it's going to be kind of like the cool, darker answer to Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet. We're making Hamlet a musician, so it should be pretty cool."

He added: "Hopefully the final financing [will come together] on this Hamlet movie me and Catherine Hardwicke want to make with one another, this modern adaptation."

Hirsch can next be seen in Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock, due out in UK cinemas on October 30.