The first clip from Hailee Steinfeld’s upcoming ‘Romeo and Juliet’ (which is having its world premiere tonight!) has been released by Yahoo! Movies. Watch it below!
Romeo and Juliet is directed by Carlo Carlei and will be released in the UK and US on October 11, 2013.
According to Variety, Hailee Steinfeld’s upcoming film Romeo and Juliet (out July 26 in the UK) has found a US distributor with Relativity Media. The company will release the film in the United States on September 6, 2013! See a new still of Hailee as Juliet above and watch the trailer for the film below.
The film was shot early last year in Italy in Mantua, the Northern Italian city to which Romeo was banished in the play, and at Rome’s Cinecitta Studios. Producers have been touting “Romeo and Juliet” as an ageless story reimagined for the 21st Century and told in the traditional setting it was written.
Hailee has done several projects since Ender’s Game and Romeo and Juliet will be her first appearance on the big screen since her Academy award nominated performance in 2010’s True Grit.
Source: Variety
So back when I was 17 years old, which I’m sad to say was a whopping 17 years ago, I created my very first fansite on Geocities, which kind of what you could call the 1990s version of GoDaddy, and it was all about the 1996 Romeo + Juliet.
It’s weird then, that Hailee Steinfeld (Petra), who I got to meet in New Orleans last May, is Juliet in a 2013 adaptation of Romeo and Juliet. I’m a total sucker for the story, even almost two decades later since it remains my favorite Shakespeare play, so I was pretty excited to see the first trailer, even if it’s in poor quality. This is actually the first footage of Hailee since her amazing debut in True Grit, which is kind of hard to believe. Hailee looks amazing as Juliet!
It’s actually kind of funny that Claire Danes was Juliet in 1996 and now Lord Capulet is being played by Damian Lewis. (You’ll only get that if you watch Homeland)