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What’s scarier than teenage love? Virtually nothing, and Robert Eggers is up for the problem that’s teenagers from feuding households. THR studies that Eggers is near finalizing a cope with Focus Options for his sixth function movie based mostly on Shakespeare’s tragedy. Focus Options gained the rights to the movie in a bidding battle in opposition to A24, Sony, and Warner Bros. No producers have been introduced for the venture simply but. It’s unclear the place R&J falls in Eggers’s priorities, as he beforehand introduced he could be making a sequel to Labyrinth and an adaptation of A Christmas Carol. It’s additionally truthful to imagine the brand new adaptation might be set within the time interval of the unique play, the late 1500s, as Eggers hasn’t made any contemporary-style movies. He says essentially the most “trendy” film he would ever make could be set within the Nineteen Fifties, and it doesn’t look like he plans to put in writing the Capulets and Montagues in an period of the invention of TV dinners.
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