20th Century Fox just shared a first look at Steven Spielberg’s version of West Side Story. The film, set to hit cinemas at the end of 2020 is 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. The film is now in production.
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Pictured left to right are: Jets members 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 members 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.
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Other previously-announced cast includes:
SHARKS
- David Aviles Morales
- Yesenia Ayala
- María Alejandra Castillo
- Annelise Cepero
- Andrei Chagas
- Jeanette Delgado
- Kelvin Delgado
- Gaby Diaz
- Yurel Echezarreta
- Adriel Flete
- Carlos E. Gonzalez
- David Guzman
- Jacob Guzman
- Ana Isabelle
- Melody Martí
- Ilda Mason
- Juliette Feliciano Ortiz
- Edriz E. Rosa Pérez
- Maria Alexis Rodriguez
- Gabriela Soto
- Ricky Ubeda
- Tanairi Vazquez
- Jamila Velazquez
- Isabella Ward
JETS
- Brianna Abruzzo
- Kyle Allen
- Kyle Coffman
- Harrison Coll
- Kevin Csolak
- Kellie Drobnick
- Julian Elia
- Myles Erlick
- Leigh-Ann Esty
- Sara Esty
- John Michael Fiumara
- Paloma Garcia-Lee
- Garett Hawe
- Eloise Kropp
- Lauren Leach
- Jess LeProtto
- Skye Mattox
- Adriana Pierce
- Brittany Pollack
- Daniel Patrick Russell
- Talia Ryder
- Jonalyn Saxer
- Halli Toland
- Maddie Ziegler
West Side Story is produced and directed by Steven Spielberg from a script by Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner. The film has been adapted for the screen from the original 1957 Broadway musical, which was written by Arthur Laurents with music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and concept, direction and choreography by Jerome Robbins.
Walt Disney Pictures will release the film at Christmas, 2020. More as we get it.
