New Sneak Peek Promo For Steven Spielberg's WEST SIDE STORY and Two Posters
20th Century Studios has released another sneak peek promo for Steven Spielberg’s upcoming adaptation of the classic 1957 musical West Side Story. I’ve gotta say, I’m actually really excited about this movie. I’m a big fan of the musical and the original film. I even played one of the Jets in a high school production of the play.
The new promo features Spielberg wrapping the production on the film and it also offers up a bit of new footage and music for you to enjoy. I also included two posters for the film that were recently released.
West Side Story tells the story of forbidden love between two teenagers – Tony, who is played by Ansel Elgort, and Maria, who is played by newcomer Rachel Zegler. The story also revolves around the rivalry between two street gangs, the Jets and the Sharks, who are of two different ethnic backgrounds.
The members of the Jets include Anybodys (Ezra Menas), Mouthpiece (Ben Cook), Action (Sean Harrison Jones); Jets leader Riff (Mike Faist); and Baby John (Patrick Higgins). Then there are the Sharks, including Maria’s brother and leader Bernardo (David Alvarez), Quique (Julius Anthony Rubio), Chago (Ricardo Zayas), Chino (Josh Andrés Rivera), Braulio (Sebastian Serra), and Pipo (Carlos Sánchez Falú). The film also stars Ariana DeBose (Anita), Ana Isabelle (Rosalia), Corey Stoll (Lieutenant Schrank), Brian d’Arcy James (Officer Krupke), and Curtiss Cook (Abe).
When talking about adapting the story for modern times, Spielberg explained: “This story is not only a product of its time, but that time has returned, and it’s returned with a kind of social fury. I really wanted to tell that Puerto Rican, Nuyorican experience of basically the migration to this country and the struggle to make a living, and to have children, and to battle against the obstacles of xenophobia and racial prejudice.”
The script for the movie comes from Angels in America playwright Tony Kushner, who previously worked with Spielberg on Munich and Lincoln, and it’s explained that he had “to craft an updated story that retains the familiar songs but embeds them in a more realistic cityscape.”
West Side Story will be released in theaters on December 10th, 2021.
