Fan Casting Romeo + Juliet (1996)

Alternate Casting

by William Shakespeare & Baz Luhrmann

Story added by rickatvo2009 on June 13, 2025

Story Plot

Baz Luhrmann helped adapt this classic Shakespearean romantic tragedy for the screen, updating the setting to a post-modern city named Verona Beach. In this version, the Capulets and the Montagues are two rival gangs. Juliet is attending a costume ball thrown by her parents. Her father Fulgencio Capulet (Paul Sorvino) has arranged her marriage to the boorish Paris as part of a strategic investment plan. Romeo attends the masked ball and he and Juliet fall in love.

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