It’s a wrap for Steven Spielberg’s ‘West Side Story’

Washington: The latest rumble between the Sharks and Jet gangs has come to an end as director Steven Spielberg wrapped up filming for his upcoming directorial ‘West Side Story’.
Spielberg’s production company Amblin Entertainment shared pictures from the sets of the movie and a letter of gratitude from the Oscar-winning filmmaker on Instagram.
“This has been a journey without precedence: a joyful, stunning, moving, endlessly surprising encounter with the story and score of one of the world’s greatest musicals,” Spielberg wrote in his letter.
“My brilliantly talented, fiercely committed, generous and apparently inexhaustible cast and crew of hundreds have given our film everything they’ve got, and already I can say that the film we’ll be releasing on December 18, 2020, owes everything to them as does its immensely grateful director,” he added.
Spielberg continued his letter by mentioning that he feels grateful to be able to walk in the footsteps of the “four giants” before him: Leonard Bernstein, Arthur Laurents, Jerome Robbins, and Stephen Sondheim.
He added, “We filmed West Side Story all over New York, Flatbush to Fort Tryon Park. The city lent us its beauty and its energy, and we drew deeply upon its grand multicultural, multifaceted spirit.”