Steven Spielberg's West Side Story adaptation

[Blitzkrieg]

Steven Spielberg’s ‘West Side Story’ Finds Its Maria, Anita, Bernardo & Chino

After auditioning more than 30K people from around the world, Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story has found its Maria in fresh face 17-year old New Jersey High School student Rachel Zegler who will make her film debut opposite Ansel Elgort as Tony.

Rounding out the principal Shark roles are Broadway veterans Ariana DeBose as Anita and David Alvarez as Bernardo. Theater performer Josh Andrés Riverahas been cast as Chino.

 

[Sawyer]

Okay, werk.

 

[terry78]

Yeah she looks like a Maria.

 

[Blitzkrieg]

Steven Spielberg Met With Puerto Ricans About 'West Side Story' Concerns

At a town hall with University of Puerto Rico students and faculty, the director, flanked by screenwriter Tony Kushner, said his remake of the musical will strive for authenticity.

 

[Sawyer]

 

[Sawyer]

Corey Stoll & Brian d’Arcy James Join Steven Spielberg’s ‘West Side Story’

Hnnngh

 

[JP]

Love BDJ. Is says he’s in Dark Phoenix, huuuh?

 

[Pink Ranger]

Steven Spielberg Met With Puerto Ricans About 'West Side Story' Concerns

At a town hall with University of Puerto Rico students and faculty, the director, flanked by screenwriter Tony Kushner, said his remake of the musical will strive for authenticity.

I'm still waiting for Steven Spielberg's outreach to the gay streetgang community.

 

[terry78]

By which you mean every street gang community.

 

[Doctor Jones]

Corey Stoll & Brian d’Arcy James Join Steven Spielberg’s ‘West Side Story’

Hnnngh

Is it sad that the first thing I think of when I hear Krupke is Curb?

 

[Web-Head]

Love BDJ. Is says he’s in Dark Phoenix, huuuh?

It's not listed on IMDB

 

[DarkKnight88]

But even some of those green lights are being met with scrutiny. One source says Disney film chief Alan Horn is questioning the apparent plan to have young characters smoking onscreen in West Side Story. "With Fox, we can make movies that right now I say no to ... We always have to think about the smoking policy. The audience for a Disney movie may not know what they are going to see, but they know what they aren't going to see," Horn said in a recent interview with THR. "There are certain things we just can't include because we'll get letters."

Multiple Fox Films Getting Axed at Disney

 

[terry78]

Dude.

 

[Doctor Jones]

God forbid people smoke a cigarette. Mass violence is fine but when somebody pulls out a cigarette that's just too far!

 

[terry78]

This is the one thing naysayers were concerned about but I never thought they'd start doing it.

 

[Boom]

Because nothing screams "child friendly IP" like West Side Story.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

This is the one thing naysayers were concerned about but I never thought they'd start doing it.

I am as happy as any fanboy or fangirl that the MCU got back the FF and the X-Men and their associated characters and concepts. It felt wrong from the start not to have all the characters under one roof. So that aspect of the merger of course was welcome on the level of my inner 14 year old... But the adult that is what I actually am was always leary about the influence Disney has accumulated now that it's acquired so much power in the current land scape of mass media.

Yet here among the super hero fan set online it is like just because we get to see the X-Men and Avengers side by side that is more important than any other consideration possible and anyone with concerns needs to shut up or else ruin the mood. And... Here we are. Freaking Spielberg might be getting told what to do on his film.

 

[Gold Samurai]

I just hope the gun that kills Tony isn’t replaced with a walkie talkie

 

[CaptainWagner]

This is the one thing naysayers were concerned about but I never thought they'd start doing it.

I had always had hope that the Fox projects would just operate like the labels that used to produce movies like Pulp Fiction. But the problem is that Disney inevitably wants to slap their branding on anything they thinks will have mass appeal, so they're trying to force their nonsensical standards on projects like West Side Story.

It's a similar story to projects like Mouse Guard getting axed because Disney doesn't want to spend money on a non-franchise and doesn't want to promote competition to their own brands.

 

[Schlosser85]

And what if Spielberg just tells them to **** off? Can he do that and get away with it?

 

[DarkKnight88]

Probably. I doubt they could force him. I’m sure he has final say and cut in his contract, regardless if it’s a different studio. Besides, no studio head would want to piss him off.

 

[Da-Scribe]

Eh, as I recall Spielberg struggled to get that boring ass Lincoln flick made, so pushback from the mouse on this isn't shocking at all.

 

[NotNickFury]

But hey, this is what people who hoped Disney would buy Fox- purely for the Marvel part, anyway- dismissed would happen, but they got their characters in a sandbox, so not like they in particular would be concerned.

 

[DarkKnight88]

Eh, as I recall Spielberg struggled to get that boring ass Lincoln flick made, so pushback from the mouse on this isn't shocking at all.

That was before it went into production. And look how well it did.

This is already shooting. His contract I’m sure is fixed so they can’t force certain things. It’s not like he’s in pre-production.

 

[Greens]

They're afraid they might get letters?

LETTERS?