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 story based on an actual marriage dispute, is set on the island of Tanna in Vanuatu. The 2017 TV series "Still Star-Crossed" includes brief scenes based on the original play but focuses primarily on the families after the deaths of the two main characters. An upcoming anime television series based on the manga of the same name, titled Kishuku Gakkō no Juliet (Boarding School Juliet), features the titular characters in a modern day, Japanese high school setting. Another way in which film-makers and authors use Shakespearean texts is to feature characters who are actors performing those texts, within a wider