West Side Story (Steven Spielberg, 2021)

[Cremildo]

Disney exec Alan Horn is concerned about young characters smoking cigarettes in the movie.

[dustybooks]

Replace the cigarettes with walkie talkies

[hearthesilence]

Replace the tobacco with weed.

[swo17]

Replace the entire film with the 1960s version

[Roscoe]

Replace the cigarettes with switchblades.

[tenia]

Disney exec Alan Horn is concerned about young characters smoking cigarettes in the movie.

As for why On the Come Up didn’t make the cut, a source says Thomas’ last project, The Hate U Give, lost $30 million-$40 million despite a modest $23 million budget and a marketing spend believed to be about $30 million.

I'm trying to do the maths here, and with a $29.7M US Box office score, either the budget or the marketing $$ is completely wrong, or I'm missing something.

[hearthesilence]

Replace the entire film with the 1960s version

Replace Richard Beymer and Natalie Wood with somebody else.

[dda1996a]

Disney exec Alan Horn is concerned about young characters smoking cigarettes in the movie.

As for why On the Come Up didn’t make the cut, a source says Thomas’ last project, The Hate U Give, lost $30 million-$40 million despite a modest $23 million budget and a marketing spend believed to be about $30 million.

I'm trying to do the maths here, and with a $29.7M US Box office score, either the budget or the marketing $$ is completely wrong, or I'm missing something.

Divide $29.7 by half, which is the net gross for the studio. And add that $30 million on the marketing you get somewhere in the $38-40 million loss range.

[schellenbergk]

West Side Story still works pretty good -- performed live, on stage...

Signature Theater in Arlington VA did a great production of this just a couple of years ago. The show still works. . .

Movie buffs might also be interested in their current show. If you happen to be in the DC area - Grant Hotel - the Musical plays through Mid-May.

[Nasir007]

Will the film make it to theaters after all?

[domino harvey]

We already have a thread for this kind of thing, and indeed literally this thing

[Nasir007]

Apologies. I did not see that. My intention was to talk about this movie's fate rather than the details of the allegation. Feel free to move this post and the post above to appropriate threads.

[Lowry_Sam]

Guess I'm a little late to this, probably because I saw "Steven Spielberg" before I saw "West Side Story" & so completely passed it by.

I wonder which Spielberg film will be the first to be re-made?

Poltergeist ....and it already happened.

Disney exec Alan Horn is concerned about young characters smoking cigarettes in the movie.

So they won't be vaping on the sly? If you're updating it to make it relevant to a younger generation, you should probably update it to make it relevant to a younger generation..... but of course if you were doing that you wouldn't have Spielberg direct.

[whaleallright]

The song "Gee, Officer Krupke" has been replaced by the newly-written "ACAB."

[hearthesilence]

Just saw this Dave Kehr tweet from mid-September...I haven't seen anyone make a similar remark, but is this in reference to a trailer or teaser?

[domino harvey]

It’s just a joke?

[Monterey Jack]

Supposedly the majority of Spanish spoken in the movie will not be subtitled.

What an asinine decision.

[hearthesilence]

It’s just a joke?

I thought the joke was based on some tangible observation, especially coming from a film critic, buuuuut I guess not.

[Never Cursed]

Even if he had seen it all the way back then, surely the film would have been embargoed at that point, no? (That plus the other person in the comments riffing on what Kehr said makes me agree that it seems to be a joke)

[Maltic]

MS13 vs the Proud Boys maybe? People have been complaining that the big auteurs don't make films about the present moment (notable exceptions: Paul Schrader and Abel Ferrara)

[Dr Amicus]

Bradshaw loves it and confirms much (all?) of the Spanish dialogue is unsubbed.

[swo17]

Just for the record, Spanish is probably the easiest language to learn

[Red Screamer]

Supposedly the majority of Spanish spoken in the movie will not be subtitled.

What an asinine decision.

They're (rightly) assuming that the movie will have a large Spanish-speaking audience and this is one more way that the remake was made with them in mind in a way the original wasn't.

[willoneill]

Bradshaw loves it and confirms much (all?) of the Spanish dialogue is unsubbed.

I wonder if this will be true in non-U.S. English-speaking markets. The Spanish-speaking population of Canada is significantly less than in the U.S., and I'm sure that's true for the U.K., Ireland, Australia, etc.

[cdnchris]

Just for the record, Spanish is probably the easiest language to learn

Or I can just ask my wife to translate all of it for me, which I'm sure will annoy no one, least of all my wife.