Steven Spielbergs West Side Story remake bombed at the box office when it arrived in theaters in 2021 but it arguably surpassed the 1961 original, so it deserved so much more. The movie was a passion project for Spielberg, whod wanted to direct a musical ever since he saw Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins original West Side Story at a young age. This gangland retelling of Romeo and Juliet revolves around star-crossed lovers from two sides of a gang war between the Jets and the Sharks: Tony, a reformed former Jet, and Maria, the sister of the Sharks leader.
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