“ West Side Story: The Making of the Steven Spielberg Film” book to be released Dec. 1

Thanks for the heads up. I will definitely be purchasing this.

I also purchased the recently released: "West Side Story: The Jets, The Sharks and the Making of a Classic" by Richard Barrios. It's an exhaustive look at the musical with it's primary focus being the making of the 1961 film version, there's a chapter that covers the upcoming remake so the new Bouzereau book will be a nice companion piece to it.








Bouzereau did an excellent job with the recent HBO documentary, "Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind."

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BrodyFosse123 said: "dramamama611 said: "Carlos - what do you think of the pix in the book you posted? Lots of unique shots or likely things a fan would already have seen? I'm asking because while I love a fancy, coffee table book, I prefer a kindle version if the graphics aren't special."

Book has a December release date. We’re in August."

Brody, if you took the time to actually READ my post you would have known that the book that dramamama is referring to and whose pics I've posted from is a book that was released in June of this year.

R.I.F. = Reading Is Fundamental as is comprehension, and last but not least: Reading Is your Friend.

BrodyFosse123 said: "Brody, if you took the time to actually READ my post you would have known that the book that dramamama is referring toand whose pics I've posted from is a book that was released in June of this year.

R.I.F. = Reading Is Fundamentalas is comprehension, and last but not least: Reading Is your Friend."



LOL! You know you deserved that "read", right?

LOL! You know you deserved that "read", right?



200%. I so deserved every word. Hahaha. I have zero reason to defend my nonsense.

I pre-ordered

Still not sure what Spielberg is adding to the mix. The shots from his production are nearly indistinguishable from those of the original film.

joevitus said: "Still not sure what Spielberg is adding to the mix. The shots from his production are nearly indistinguishable from those of the original film."

The original 1961 was heavily stylized. It was intentionally meant to look like art: the colors, the abstract visuals, the obvious “sets.” Only the opening Prologue was filmed on location. The rest was on soundstages. Everything was intended to have that artificial “look.” Spielberg strayed away from this visual concept and shot his version using actual locations. Impossible to compare the “look” of both films.

Globefan said: "It's still coming out this year despite the release being pushed back"

I found the author on Twitter and asked if the book was still coming out next month, and he said no. I guess we'll see.

Globefan said: "Amazon still has it listed for December"

Amazon isn’t a reliable source on release dates. Many times they’ve updated release date info on the day and item was to be released but was changed. The author himself verified the December 2020 release date was cancelled. The book was intended to coincide with the film’s release and its apparent they intend on keeping this timeline. In other words, book is slated for December 2021.