West Side Story is being remade by genre-spanning movie megalodon Steven Spielberg.
The Jaws director has never made a musical before, but presumably he does know a lot about Sharks so he must be the man for the job.
He certainly thinks so. The 69-year-old, whose current project is The BFG, has controlled the rights to the remake of the 1961 movie for 15 years and has longed to do it ‘for decades’.
Spielberg told The Hollywood Reporter that Angels in America playwright Tony Kushner is working the script, and that the film will be a co-production between Fox and MGM.
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