Juliet

Juliet would be a 2026 romantic musical drama computer-animated film directed by Jennifer Yuh Nelson and Rob Minkoff from an screenplay by Nelson, while Brad Lewis would produce the project. Based on Williams Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, the film would be produced by DreamWorks Animation, and would star the voices of Naomi Scott, Mena Massoud, Gerald Butler, Robert Downey Jr., Tommy Lee Jones, and Jeff Goldblum. Alan Menken would compose the score for the film, which would feature songs written by Menken and Benj Pasek & Justin Paul.

Development on an animated Romeo and Juliet film would begin in early 2022, with Minkoff set to direct the film. In late 2022, Jennifer Yuh Nelson would join the film as co-director and screenwirter: In early 2023, Scott and Massoud would join the film as its leads, while Butler and Jones would join in mid-2023, and Downey Jr. and Goldblum would join the cast in late 2023. Voice recording would begin in early 2024. The filmmakers would choose to center the film around the character of Juliet in order to give the story "a modern, progressive, and feminist perspective".

Juliet would be released in July 25, 2026, by Universal Pictures, and would become a critical and commercial success, earning praise for its screenplay, themes, voice acting (particularly Scott and Massoud's), songs, score, visual effects, and animation. The film would earn 989 million dollars at the worldwide box office over a budget of 140 million dollars. Juliet would earn an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Feature, as well as two Academy Awards for Best Original Score and Best Original Song, and a Golden Globe for Best Film.