{"id":902603,"date":"2026-09-23T14:36:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T14:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/902603\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T14:36:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T14:36:23","slug":"robert-eggers-sets-romeo-juliet-at-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/902603\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Eggers Sets &#8220;Romeo &#038; Juliet&#8221; At Focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/robert-eggers-sets-romeo-juliet-at-focus.jpg\" data-caption=\"A24\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/robert-eggers-sets-romeo-juliet-at-focus.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"robert-eggers-sets-romeo-juliet-at-focus\"\/><\/a>A24<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNosferatu,\u201d \u201cThe Lighthouse\u201d and \u201cThe Northman\u201d filmmaker Robert Eggers has set up a new film adaptation of Shakespeare\u2019s \u201cRomeo and Juliet\u201d at Focus Features.<\/p>\n<p>Focus beat out the likes of A24, Sony and Warner Bros. Pictures in a bidding war for the project, their third straight collaboration with the filmmaker following \u201cNosferatu\u201d and the upcoming \u201cWerwulf\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Eggers will both direct the feature and produce, no other producers have yet been announced.  The adaptation will feature actors speaking in Olde English<\/p>\n<p>Written in the 1590s, the tragic romance tells the ill-fated story of the titular young lovers who hail from two warring families, the Capulets and the Montagues, in the city of Verona, Italy.<\/p>\n<p>It remains arguably the single most famous play of the author and has been adapted to the screen many times, including Baz Luhrmann\u2019s notable 1996 modern-day-set adaptation \u201cRomeo + Juliet\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The new film is said to have a production budget a little under $80 million total and will be Eggers\u2019 next production.<\/p>\n<p>Source:  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/robert-eggers-tackling-romeo-and-juliet-adaptation-1236707061\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">THR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previous article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/new-trailer-james-grays-paper-tiger\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Trailer: James Gray\u2019s \u201cPaper Tiger\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/cast-set-for-the-new-darkwing-duck\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cast Set For The New \u201cDarkwing Duck\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A24 \u201cNosferatu,\u201d \u201cThe Lighthouse\u201d and \u201cThe Northman\u201d filmmaker Robert Eggers has set up a new film adaptation of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":902604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,142132,134],"class_list":["post-902603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bigslider","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=902603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/902604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}