So if casting is still up in the air, here are our suggestions.Ĭasting Call runs every Friday. Rumors have been circling for months about a possible cast, with everyone from Girls’ Allison Williams to Dave Franco reportedly attached. Michael Sucsy, whose previous work includes The Vow, is set to direct, with 500 Days of Summer writing duo Scott Neustadter and Michael Weber adapting the screenplay. The new team behind the project all have experience with bittersweet rom-coms. No doubt Universal will be hoping to capitalize on the recent success of YA franchises like Twilight and The Hunger Games. With producer Shawn Levy attached Rosaline might actually go ahead. The project has been bouncing around different studios for the past few years, but now it has a new home at Universal. In this case, Rosaline-that jilted girl you forgot about-whom Romeo dumped for Juliet. As in Tom Stoppard’s postmodern masterpiece Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, the film will retell a familiar story from the perspective of a fringe character. and The Globe for Beverly Hills High School, this will be Shakespeare meets 90210. Swapping Elizabethan England for modern-day L.A. Universal Pictures is currently adapting Serle’s young-adult novel, When You Were Mine, re-titled Rosaline, a revisionist take on the Bard’s classic. Or so Rebecca Serle would have us believe. After Rob (Romeo) and Juliet get together they drop to the periphery of the story and When You Were Mine focuses on Rosalines tentative new relationship with school slacker, Len. In truth, this book has been inaccurately sold as a Romeo and Juliet retelling.

Apparently, little Juliet isn’t the tragic heroine we all thought but a vindictive, manipulative, unstable diva. When You Were Mine walks the line between being fun summer fluff and having a more serious side. You see, Romeo was meant to be Rosaline’s man until that conniving harlot, Juliet, stole his heart. In which we suggest who should star in the next big adaptation, remake, or historical film.Īpparently Shakespeare got it wrong.

When you were mine rosaline