Steven Spielberg's WEST SIDE STORY - News & Discussion Thread — Page 15

BwayLB said: "Globefan said: "jacobsnchz14 said: "I’m still hoping the final poster involves a shot of Zegler and Elgort recreating the iconic “rushing down the street” imagery from the Broadway and original film photography."

I've been hoping for that since the beginning!"

I think it won’t work since it’ll give people the wrong impression."

I personally don’t want to see it for that reason, though this show is so famous that most people already know what happens, so that poster wouldn’t really hurt it.

I like how it's drawn some visual/aesthetic inspiration not from the Broadway or original film versions of the show, but from iconic youth-gang films of the past. I definitely caught accents of "The Outsiders" and "Gangs of New York," but I feel like I even felt just a smattering of "The Warriors" as well in that "shadows converging" shot.

I got absolute chills

The gym scenes look like The Prom.

The person on the BWW staff who wrote the article on the new WEST SIDE STORY trailer should be shot and quartered. It's Steven Spielberg not STEPHEN! Like seriously, WTF?!?!?

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/VIDEO-Watch-the-All-New-Trailer-for-Stephen-Spielbergs-WEST-SIDE-STORY-20210425

Musical Master said: "Not since 2014's Into The Woods has a teaser trailer for a movie musical left me stunned and completely hyped for the holiday season.”



DEAR GOD let’s pray it’s not as awful and misguided as that ITW film was.

RippedMan said: "Honestly I find WSS to be such a chore to sit through and not my favorite, but that trailer got me excited! Loved it!"

These are my sentiments, exactly. I admire individual elements of the original, but it has always felt like a very long two and a half hours. The trailer for this new version feels more fresh and exciting to me.

I'd forgotten Mike Faist was going to be in this and now I'm suddenly interested in his performance. It's a great trailer. I am slightly worried about them deemphasizing the musical and the romance/the two leads but maybe they're just trying to appeal to a different audience with the first trailer.