The Royal Shakespeare Firm is popping Macbeth right into a neo-noir recreation

Macbeth, William Shakespeare’s iconic play, is being reimagined as an interactive online game with a neo-noir vibe — and it’s being developed partially by the Royal Shakespeare Firm. The sport, titled Lili, is a “display life thriller online game” the place you’ll have entry to a modern-day Woman Macbeth’s private units, in line with a press launch.

“Gamers shall be immersed in a stylized, neo-noir imaginative and prescient of contemporary Iran, the place surveillance and authoritarianism are a part of every day life,” the discharge says. “The gameplay will function a mix of live-action cinema inside an interactive recreation format, giving gamers the possibility to immerse themselves on the earth of Woman Macbeth and make selections that affect her future.” It sounds sort of like a model of Macbeth impressed by Sam Barlow’s interactive thrillers.

The Royal Shakespeare Firm is making the sport in collaboration with iNK Tales, a New York-based indie studio and writer that additionally made 1979 Revolution: Black Friday. It stars Zar Amir as “Woman Macbeth (Lili),” per the press launch.

Lili is about to launch “later in 2025.”