Screenshot: West Side Story
Originally slated to snap its way into theaters last December, Steven Spielberg’s
West Side Story will finally debut this year, and the Oscars just gave us our first look. The surprisingly quiet teaser, which aired after Daniel Kaluuya won his first Oscar for Best Support Actor for
Judas And the Black Messiah, relies on a modern trailer trope of a slowed-down version of “Somewhere (A Place For Us) plays over a montage of greasers grabbing chainlink fences. That is to say, it looks like a West Side Story remake
Spielberg’s
West Side Story is based on the Broadway musical by Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein, and Stephen Sondheim, and stars Ansel Elgort and Rachel Zegler as star-crossed lovers Tony and Maria. A re-telling of