James Bond producer Barbara Broccoli has formally confirmed that her first function movie since stepping away from the 007 franchise — a big-screen adaptation of Shakespeare’s Othello — has secured financing in Qatar and can start principal pictures within the Gulf state in autumn 2026.
The movie will star David Oyelowo as Othello (reprising his function from the 2016 stage manufacturing), Rachel Brosnahan returning as Desdemona, and Cynthia Erivo as Emilia. Oyelowo may even make his function directorial debut.
Broccoli broke the information in the course of the three-day Business Days occasion in Qatar, hosted by Media Metropolis Qatar’s Movie Committee in partnership with the Doha Movie Institute. She was joined onstage by producer Nicky Bentham and shock visitor Oyelowo.
The challenge is being produced by Broccoli and Bentham for EON Productions, alongside Oyelowo’s Yoruba Saxon banner, in co-financing partnership with Doha-based Katara Studios. The manufacturing may even make the most of Qatar’s newly launched Qatar Display Manufacturing Incentive (QSPI) rebate. Submit-production and VFX will probably be dealt with by Firm 3, which simply introduced it’s opening a brand new facility in Doha.
The movie is predicated on Broccoli’s acclaimed 2016 off-Broadway manufacturing at New York Theatre Workshop, directed by Sam Gold and co-starring Daniel Craig as Iago. That staging reimagined Shakespeare’s tragedy by relocating the motion from Seventeenth-century Venice to a recent U.S. navy base in Iraq. No casting has but been introduced for Iago within the film.
Rumors of an imminent inexperienced mild had circulated for months after EON registered Othello Movie Firm Restricted within the UK.
The Qatar shoot comes simply months after Broccoli and her brother Michael G. Wilson handed inventive management of the James Bond franchise to Amazon MGM Studios.
Talking at a inventive producing masterclass alongside Bentham, Broccoli stated:
“I’ve wished to supply the cinematic adaptation of Othello since we staged the manufacturing in New York in 2016. I’m extremely excited that David Oyelowo will probably be directing and returning as Othello, Rachel Brosnahan will probably be reprising the function of Desdemona, and Cynthia Erivo is enjoying Emilia. We thank the Movie Committee for his or her help and stay up for capturing in Qatar in Autumn 2026.”
David Oyelowo added:
“Our cinematic model of Othello is bitingly trendy and fearlessly bold. To have an actual shot at that, you want fearless actors. Cynthia shouldn’t be solely a generational expertise however an expensive pal with whom I’m all the time eager to collaborate, and Rachel was a dream to play reverse in our unique stage manufacturing and has been an inspiring pillar to construct round for our recent tackle this legendary story.”
