EXCLUSIVE: One notable title up for sale we’re hearing about at the European Film Market is Timothy Scott Bogart’s pop Romeo & Juliet musical, Verona starring Clara Rugaard, Jamie Ward, Rebel Wilson, Rupert Everett, Jason Isaacs and Derek Jacobi.
Verona will be the first film in a original pop musical trilogy based around the real-life 1301 story that inspired Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.
A wide theatrical releaser this Christmas is being planned. Bogart tells us, “We’ve set out to tell the greatest love story of all time, set to the musical pulse of our time.
But Shakespeare only told part of that remarkable tale whose events changed the course of history!” Voltage is handling international sales on Verona.
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