#baz-luhrmann

#baz-luhrmann

Baz Luhrmann reinvented Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet as a gangbanger love tragedy of the present day, with Mexico City standing in for an imaginary urban place called Verona Beach. The result was a terrific success, more of a success, I suspect, than Luhrmann ever had again; it was irreverent and questioning in just the right way, a sunburst of energy, but instinctively respectful to the story.

Ernst [Mikael Jorgensen] is like the scientist of all things Elvis, and he says, 'I think there are these lost reels.' Jorgensen told him that they might not be easy to get, if they're even gettable at all. Unfortunately, they're in the salt mines in Kansas where they keep all the negatives of everything.

Stepping inside the carriage is like being transported into another world, and one in which guests are invited to become part of the story,

"The problem with a property like Baz Luhrmann's is that you're going to see it first online. We're so used to seeing these neutral spaces where you can really picture yourself there."