‘William Tell’ Director Nick Hamm on Casting Baddie Claes Bang as a Hero and Juxtaposing Bloodiness and Beauty: It’s ‘“Sound of Music” With Violence’

Having directed psychological thrillers (2001’s “The Hole,” which gave Keira Knightley her first major role), music comedies (2011’s “Killing Bono”) and comedy-thrillers based around the famed DeLorean car (2018’s “Driven”), Northern Irish director Nick Hamm has ventured into entirely different territories for his next feature.