Romeo and Juliet on screen the story have also been filmed, most notably "West Side Story", Prokofiev's ballet "Romeo and Juliet" and "Romanoff and Juliet". Several theatrical films, such as "Shakespeare in Love" and "Romeo Must Die", consciously use elements of Shakespeare's plot. Producer Irving Thalberg pushed MGM for five years to make a "Romeo and Juliet", in the face of the studio's opposition: which stemmed from Louis B. Mayer's belief that the masses considered the Bard over their heads, and from the austerity forced on the studios by the depression. It was only when Jack L. Warner announced his intention to film Max Reinhardt's
Romeo and Juliet on screen to that of Romeo and Juliet. The 2007 anime "Romeo x Juliet" is a fantasy retelling of the famed play. In it, Juliet's family were rulers of a floating island nation called Neo Verona before being killed by the Montagues, forcing her to hide in a theater troupe owned by a fictional version of William Shakespeare. The play has also inspired two major Bollywood romantic dramas: Mansoor Khan's "Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak" (1988) starring Aamir Khan and Juhi Chawla and Sanjay Leela Bhansali's "Ram-Leela" (2013) starring Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone. "Tanna" (2015), the depiction of a "Romeo and Juliet"-like