Robert Eggers Sets "Romeo & Juliet" At Focus
The deal is in the high-seventy millions, and the adaptation will feature actors speaking in Olde English, sources said.
- Focus Features secured rights to Robert Eggers' adaptation of William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" following a competitive bidding war against A24, Sony, and Warner Bros.
- Unlike Baz Luhrmann's 1996 modern-day adaptation, Eggers' take will feature actors speaking in Olde English, reflecting the filmmaker's commitment to historical detail and archaic language.
- Sources indicate the project's deal sits in the high-seventy millions, which includes filmmaker and talent fees alongside a production budget estimated just under $80 million.
- Eggers' next project will be "Romeo and Juliet" following "Werwulf," effectively placing his previously announced "A Christmas Carol" adaptation at Warner Bros. on the back burner.
- Continuing a longstanding collaboration, this deal reunites the filmmaker with the studio behind "The Northman" and "Nosferatu," the latter of which grossed $181 million worldwide.
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Robert Eggers Sets "Romeo & Juliet" At Focus
“Nosferatu,” “The Lighthouse” and “The Northman” filmmaker Robert Eggers has set up a new film adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” at Focus Features. Focus beat out the likes of A24, Sony and Warner Bros. Pictures in a bidding war for the project, their third straight collaboration with the filmmaker following “Nosferatu” and the upcoming “Werwulf”. Eggers will both direct the feature and produce, no other producers have yet been anno…
The classic romance between two young rival family lovers, the Capulets and the Montecchios, in Verona, Italy, will return to the cinemas under the command of director Robert Eggers. Known for works such as "The Witch", "The Lighthouse" and "Nosferatu", the filmmaker will perform the new version of "Romeo and Juliet", classic of William Shakespeare. The information is from the Hollywood Reporter website.
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