Steven Spielberg's West Side Story will soon arrive on Disney+.
The streaming platform announced the film will debut for all subscribers on March 2. This news follows West Side Story's Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Best Director (Spielberg), Best Supporting Actress (Ariana DeBose), Best Costume Design (Paul Tazewell), Best Sound (Tod A. Maitland, Gary Rydstrom, Brian Chumney, Andy Nelson and Shawn Murphy), Best Cinematography (Janusz Kaminski) and Best Production Design (Adam Stockhausen and Rena DeAngelo).
West Side Story is the second film adaptation of the 1957 musical by Jerome Robbins, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents. The story centers on two rival street gangs -- the Jets and the Sharks -- as well as the forbidden love between Tony (Ansel Elgort) and Maria (Rachel Zegler), who fall on either side of the conflict.
"I was not remaking the 1961 film at all," Spielberg recently explained to Goggler while discussing his new take on the classic West Side Story. "Everybody knew from the outset that everything was based on the 1957 musical. Every single note that Leonard Bernstein wrote, and every lyric Stephen Sondheim wrote, was my template for planning the sequences, planning my set pieces, and planning my shots. I storyboarded to the original Broadway cast album, and everything was about reimagining that which was very contemporary and very relevant in 1957. But also having to shift that to become something that would be authentic to this generation, to the young kids today who will hopefully see the film.
"Many of them have never heard of West Side Story and don’t even know that there was a movie made in 1961, or a play written and produced on Broadway in 1957. This needed to be a story of our time, albeit set in 1957 still, and that was sort of the marching orders that all of us had."
West Side Story opened in theaters on Dec. 10, and thus far, the film has only grossed $64.1 million worldwide against an estimated $100 million budget. Despite not recouping its costs, however, West Side Story has been praised by critics and fans alike for updating the iconic narrative with modern sensibilities and a fresh and diverse cast while still staying true to the original musical.
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