20th Century Fox Reveal the First Look Photo for Steven Spielberg’s Eagerly Awaited WEST SIDE STORY Ahead of Christmas 2020 Release
The first look at Academy Award® winner Steven Spielberg’s WEST SIDE STORY has been revealed. An adaptation of the original Broadway musical, WEST SIDE STORY 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 for Twentieth Century Fox.
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.
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. Tony Award® winner Justin Peck will choreograph the musical numbers in the film. Also leading the production are Tony Award®-winning producer Kevin McCollum and Academy Award®-nominated producer Kristie Macosko Krieger.
The film’s music team includes renowned conductor Gustavo Dudamel, who will helm the recording of Bernstein’s iconic score; Academy Award®-nominated composer and conductor David Newman (Anastasia) who will be arranging the score for the new adaptation; Tony Award®-winning composer Jeanine Tesori (Broadway’s Fun Home and Thoroughly Modern Millie), who will be working with the cast on vocals; and Grammy®-nominated music supervisor Matt Sullivan (Beauty and the Beast, Chicago), who will serve as executive music producer for the film.
WEST SIDE STORY WILL BE RELEASED BY THE WALT DISNEY STUDIOS CHRISTMAS 2020
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