Overview
- Multiple outlets reported that Focus Features prevailed in a competitive bid for Eggers’s Romeo and Juliet, with initial coverage saying the package was in the high‑seventy millions.
- Reports make clear the deal is not finalized and Focus offered no public comment, leaving fees, producers and a release date unconfirmed.
- Coverage was corrected after initial reports about language use: sources say the film will use Elizabethan (early modern) English rather than ‘Olde English.’
- The project is described as Eggers’s next film following Werwulf, which means his other planned projects such as a Labyrinth sequel and an A Christmas Carol adaptation are likely to be delayed.
- The move keeps Eggers with the Focus/Universal specialty arm that released Nosferatu and suggests a mainstream‑scale production for a director known for tight historical detail and language-driven staging of period material.