First Look At Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story Sharks And Jets!
Twentieth Century Fox have revealed an first look image for Steven Spielberg‘s West Side Story.An adaptation of the original Broadway musical, that explores young love and tensions between rival gangs the Jets and the Sharks on the streets of 1957 New York.
Ansel Elgort and Rachael Zegler play our star crossed lovers Tony and Maria. The image shows The Sharks and Jets confronting each other with our lovers in between them. (image is above).
Pictured left to right are: Jets Anybodys (Ezra Menas), Mouthpiece (Ben Cook), Action (Sean Harrison Jones); Jets leader Riff (Mike Faist); Baby John (Patrick Higgins); Tony (Ansel Elgort) and Maria (Rachel Zegler); Maria’s brother and Sharks leader Bernardo (David Alvarez); and Sharks Quique (Julius Anthony Rubio), Chago (Ricardo Zayas), Chino (Josh Andrés Rivera), Braulio (Sebastian Serra) and Pipo (Carlos Sánchez Falú).
The cast also includes Ariana DeBose (Anita); Ana Isabelle (Rosalia); Corey Stoll (Lieutenant Schrank); Brian d’Arcy James (Officer Krupke); Curtiss Cook (Abe) and Academy Award® winner Rita Moreno, who plays Valentina and also serves as one of the film’s Executive Producers.
We don’t know much more about this version and how much it will reflect the classic 1957 Broadway musical. which was written by Arthur Laurents with music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. It’s down to the old question, if this is a like for like remake, why are we saying a remake? Or will Spielberg inject his own twists to the musical? To many as long as the classic songs are all there fans of the original will be happy!
West Side Story is set for Christmas 2020 release.
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