Hailee Steinfeld and Douglas Booth have been cast as Romeo and Juliet. Kodi Smit-McPhee is tapped to play Romeo's cousin Benvolio Tybalt will be played by Gossip Girl guy Ed Westwick Paul Giamatti is in the role of the mentor-like Friar Lawrence
Also joining the cast today are Stellan Skarsgard (Prince of Verona), Lesley Manville (The Nurse), Christian Cooke (Mercutio), Tomas Arana (Lord Montague), Laura Morante (Lady Montague) and Leon Vitali (Apothecary).
Adapter of the new screenplay Julian Fellowes says this version will be a "romantic, traditional rendition of the piece" set in the medieval time of the play - something we really haven't seen since since Franco Zeffirelli’s 1968 film and has tightened the play to fit into a standard two-hour feature running time, but reportedly did very little re-writing. Because Steinfeld is only 14-years-old, the infamous sex scene has been cut from the script.
Carlo Carlei is directing
Fellows is also producing with Gabriele Muccino, Ileen Maisel and Mark Ordesky.
Filming began ten days ago in Rome, Mantua and Siena in Italy.
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