WEST SIDE STORY
Jan 08, 2021
1 minute
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DIRECTOR Steven Spielberg STARRING Ansel Elgort Rachel Zegler Ariana DeBose David Alvarez Patrick Higgins Rita Moreno
Take another look at the and then tell us that Steven Spielberg reimagining isn’t an ace idea. Great as the Robbins and Wise 1961 screen version of the Broadway play is, it’s ripe for reinvention. With Spielberg behind the megaphone, expect this riff on set in the world of New York street gangs to star actors who are actually the correct race, and to utilise gritty, energetic location shooting. Screenwriter Tony Kushner (, ) says, “There were aspects of urban life that weren’t touched on in the 1961 movie.”
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