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Exclusive: Isabela Merced has been tapped to play Juliet in 20th Century’s Rosaline, a comedic and revisionist take on Romeo & Juliet that has Kaitlyn Dever attached to star. The film had been at MGM but recently hit the market, and after being quickly acquired by 20th Century, the studio tapped Karen Maine to direct. 21 Laps, Shawn Levy and Dan Cohen are producing.

The script is based on the novel When You Were Mine by Rebecca Serle and is a modern twist on the classic Shakespeare tale. We see “the most famous love story ever told” through the eyes of Juliet’s cousin Rosaline (Dever), a sharp but idealistic young woman—who happens to be Romeo’s recent ex. What begins as an attempt to foil the famous romance and win back her guy becomes a journey of self-discovery as she ultimately works to help get the star-crossed lovers back together.

I think it's fair to say that William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet has been adapted to other mediums more than a few times over the years, but hey, let's add another to the pile. Deadline has reported that Kaitlyn Dever (Booksmart) is slated to star in Rosaline for 20th Century Studios, which is said to be a revisionist take on the classic play based…...

Exclusive: 20th Century Studios has picked up Rosaline, a comedic and revisionist take on Romeo & Juliet that has Kaitlyn Dever attached to star. The film had been at MGM but recently hit the market, and after being quickly acquired by 20th Century, the studio also tapped Karen Maine to direct. 21 Laps, Shawn Levy and Dan Cohen are producing.

The script is based on the novel When You Were Mine by Rebecca Serle and is a modern twist on the classic tale of Romeo and Juliet, we see “the most famous love story ever told” through the eyes of Juliet’s cousin Rosaline, a sharp but idealistic young woman—who happens to be Romeo’s recent ex. What begins as an attempt to foil the famous romance and win back her guy becomes a journey of self-discovery as she ultimately works to help get the star-crossed lovers back together.

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In the last 404 years, “Romeo and Juliet” hasn’t become the world’s most famous piece of theater by staying static. A pair of productions from this past spring that prove not even four centuries’ worth of iterations have exhausted the possibilities.

Simon Godwin, who worked alongside co-director and writer Emily Burns at the helm of the mid-lockdown film “Romeo & Juliet” starring Josh O’Connor and Jessie Buckley in the title roles, has long recognized not just the inherent advantages but the necessity of reshaping Shakespeare.

“I find him to be a super empowering writer. We’ve both really broken free from a kind of reverence into an irreverence, which I think is more Shakespearean than than being loyal. In a way, you’re loyal by being disloyal,” Godwin said. “I think we’ve all been asking ourselves over the last few months, ‘What reality am I in? Am I in a dream?...

Steven Spielberg has tackled science fiction (“E.T.: the Extra Terrestrial), adventure epics (the Indiana Jones franchise), horror films (“Jaws”), biopics (“Lincoln”), family movies (“The B.F.G.”), action thrillers (“Minority Report”), war films (“Saving Private Ryan”), and historical dramas (“Schindler’s List”), but he’s about to do something he’s never done in his nearly 50 years of directing: A full-blown movie musical. Enter “West Side Story,” Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim’s iconic musical about rival street gangs. The story itself is inspired by Shakespeare’s “Romeo & Juliet,” and there’s already been one “West Side Story” movie that won 10 Oscars (including Best Picture) and is widely regarded as one of the best movie musicals ever made. No pressure, Spielberg.

Spielberg’s “West Side Story” is written by frequent collaborator Tony Kushner, who earned screenwriting Oscar nominations for penning the director’s “Munich” and “Lincoln.” Ansel Elgort...

It’s a classic of the silver screen: forbidden love, rival street gangs with different ethnic backgrounds, the swaggering style of ’50s cool. On the 60th anniversary of the 1961 film’s original release date, the Jets and the Sharks cross paths again in Steven Spielberg‘s remake of “West Side Story.”

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Loosely based on “Romeo & Juliet,” “West Side Story” was first a Broadway sensation depicting young love and gang violence on the streets of 1957 New York. Robert Wise and Jerome Robbin‘s musical received 11 nominations at the Oscars, winning 10 of them, including Best Picture.

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Fitting a full, five-act Shakespeare play into a condensed time frame is always a dubious task. After centuries of both tradition and refinement, there’s a constant question of what lies at the heart of these works and what makes them essential. Any process of winnowing, especially with foundational texts, runs a risk.

But the most recent film version of “Romeo & Juliet,” airing this week as part of PBS’ long-running “Great Performances” series, gains something profound in separating this cultural touchstone into its component parts. In the process, the title couple (played by incipient megastars Jessie Buckley and Josh O’Connor) and their long-ingrained tragedy play out in an elemental form. It’s a version — from director Simon Godwin and adapter Emily Burns — that imagines a more self-aware couple, a pair that seems to anticipate their star-cross’d fate even more than most incarnations.

That begins in the opening, which...

At 30 and 31, respectively, Josh O’Connor and Jessie Buckley are not the youngest actors to have played Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers in Romeo & Juliet. But there’s no doubting the youthful, I-would-die-for-you intensity of their passion in Simon Godwin’s thrilling reimagining of the classic drama. If anything, their maturity gives the heavy veil of melancholy that clouds their joy all the more weight. Originally planned for London’s National Theatre and reconceived for television in ways that ingeniously bridge the distance between stage and screen, this is as much a mesmerizing contemplation of theatrical storytelling as a ...

At 30 and 31, respectively, Josh O’Connor and Jessie Buckley are not the youngest actors to have played Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers in Romeo & Juliet. But there’s no doubting the youthful, I-would-die-for-you intensity of their passion in Simon Godwin’s thrilling reimagining of the classic drama. If anything, their maturity gives the heavy veil of melancholy that clouds their joy all the more weight. Originally planned for London’s National Theatre and reconceived for television in ways that ingeniously bridge the distance between stage and screen, this is as much a mesmerizing contemplation of theatrical storytelling as a ...