Romeo-and-Juliet-PosterShakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is one of the oldest and most well-known tales of all time in the West, and its adaptations have been numerous over the years.

Carlo Carlei is the latest to bring the play to the big screen, and with the film set to hit cinemas next month, the first clip has been released over on Yahoo Movies, revealing the new take on an iconic scene.

In the fair city of Verona. Romeo and Juliet, the children of the feuding Montague and Capulet families, meet at a feast and fall deeply in love. Despite the sworn disdain their families hold for one another, they steal away and are secretly wed by Friar Laurence.

It is not long, however, before trouble ensues…

Unaware of his daughter’s transgressions, Lord Capulet, Juliet’s father, has arranged for Juliet to take the hand of Count Paris in marriage. Devastated and defiant Juliet seeks the counsel of Friar Laurence, who concocts a devious plan that will alter the lives of both families forever…

Douglas Booth and Hailee Steinfeld star as the eponymous star-crossed lovers, with a great supporting cast led by Ed Westwick, Damian Lewis, Paul Giamatti, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Natascha McElhone, Stellan Skarsgård, Lesley Manville, Christian Cooke, and Tom Wisdom.

Carlei is directing from a script penned by the Oscar-winning Julian Fellowes, whose name has of course been gaining more and more recognition in recent years as the creator of Downton Abbey.

Romeo and Juliet will be released in the UK and US on October 11th.

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