By By March 20, 2015 Get ready for another interpretation of “Romeo and Juliet,” because Sony is producing yet another retelling of the Bard’s most well-known tragedy. Look, it’s not just superhero movies that keep getting recycled! However, this version might be superhero-esque. According to an by the Hollywood Reporter, Sony is in final negotiations to pick up “Verona.” From the limited description, it sounds like a very butched-up version of the classic. This time it’s being envisioned “through a lens of an epic, 300-style world.” Hmmm, “Romeo and Juliet,” Spartans-versus-Persians style. That should make for some interesting costuming. This project is in super-duper early stages, but it affords the opportunity for a look back at the great — and not-so-great — adaptations of the tale of two star-crossed lovers and their warring families.

William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet: Music from the Motion Picture was the first soundtrack album to accompany the film. Released on the Capitol Records label.

Hailee Steinfeld (Juliet) and Douglas Booth (Romeo). (Philippe Antonello/R&J Releasing, LTD) This film was not well-received, despite its impressive cast and true-to-the-period art direction. Paul Giamatti was Friar Lawrence. Ed Westwick, who was so brilliant as the skulking, scheming Chuck Bass of “Gossip Girl,” seemed like a perfect Tybalt. At 16, Hailee Steinfeld was actually a pretty age-appropriate Juliet. “Downton Abbey” creator Julian Fellowes penned the adaptation. But the film, while visually satisfying, was panned for lacking energy and chemistry.

It probably didn’t help that it was somewhat overshadowed by a competing stage production starring Orlando Bloom that was also running on Broadway in the fall of 2013. Russell Wang and Jet Li in “Romeo Must Die”. (Kharen Hill/Warner Bros.) It seems like the most common downfall of productions or adaptations of “Romeo and Juliet” lies in lack of chemistry between the two title characters, which was one of the problems with “Romeo Must Die.” This was a modern-day adaptation that most remember because of Jet Li’s impressive martial arts performance, and the fact that it was Aaliyah’s film debut. According to of the San Francisco Chronicle, Li was more Mercutio than Romeo: At first glance, the rival Chinese and African American clans might seem a plausible substitute for Shakespeare’s Capulets and Montagues in “Romeo and Juliet,” but it’s a stretch to squeeze the plot into this framework. Authentic Success Robert Holden Pdf Converter.

After too many sidetracks, a viewer may wonder why they bothered. It becomes someone’s “concept.” Straight-ahead action would have been more than sufficient.

Gnomeo (James McAvoy) Juliet (Emily Blunt), and Featherstone (Jim Cummings). (©2010 Touchstone Pictures. All Rights Reserved.) This was actually quite charming and cute, and for once, the star-crossed lovers get a happy ending, seeing as a double-suicide wouldn’t have been too appropriate for a family movie. In the tale of star-crossed garden gnomes, it’s their owners, who are acrimonious neighbors Mr. Capulet and Miss Montague, separated by an alley and a fence. The blue Montague gnomes (that would be Gnomeo’s clan) have been taught to despise the red Capulet gnomes, but Gnomeo and Juliet fall in love when she wanders out for a flower. Nicholas Hoult, left, and Teresa Palmer in a scene from “Warm Bodies.” (Jonathan Wenk/Summit Entertainment via AP) In this instance, we’re treated to a war between zombies and humans rather than Capulets and Montagues.

It works pretty well. A zombie named R (played by Nicolas Hoult, the adorable lad from “About A Boy,” now all grown up) protects the very-much alive Julie (Theresa Palmer) from his brain-eating brethren and starts to fall for her. In the process, he feels himself feeling. It’s a nifty take on the zombie genre, even if you’re not an aficionado of cinema dedicated to the undead.

Orlando Bloom, left, and Condola Rashad during a performance of “Romeo and Juliet,” in New York. (AP Photo/The Hartman Group, Carol Rosegg) This version of “Romeo and Juliet, starring Orlando Bloom and Condola Rashad, marked “Romeo and Juliet’s” return to Broadway after a 36-year absence. Though it’s a stage production, you can. It’s given a contemporary setting — Romeo rides in on a motorcycle to certify his bad news boy credentials — and critics praised it for an interpretation of 13-year-old Juliet that imbued her with agency and maturity. Still, it loses its momentum in the second half, according to the New York Times’: Good as she is in the early scenes, Ms. Rashad doesn’t yet have the vocal heft and variety to take Juliet into the echoing halls of tragedy.