By Amanda N'Duka pmc-editorial-manager EXCLUSIVE: Diego Tinoco, best known for the Netflix series, On My Block, will play Tybalt in R#J, a modern-day adaptation of the Shakespearean classic Romeo and Juliet from producers Timur Bekmambetov and Igor Tsay.
Carey Williams is directing the film from a script he co-wrote with Rickie Castaneda. This marks the first project under Bekmambetov and Tsay’s newly-launched Interface Films banner.
Their credits include Unfriended and Searching, starring John Cho. Like the two aforementioned titles, R#J will be shot using the Screenlife format of storytelling, which is told through the POV of smartphone and computer screens.
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