13 year rapper Lil' Romeo is set to star in a radical remake of ‘Romeo and Juliet’. Produced by Lil’ Romeo’s father, rap mogul Master P, for MGM Pictures, the Shakespeare remake is being described as "a cutting-edge, multi-ethnic style representative of today's youth." Mark Canton (producer of Courtney Love's Trapped and Jennifer Lopez's Angel Eyes) will co-produce, and Dallas Jackson will write the script. A director and female lead are still being recruited.
The Shakespeare isn’t Romeo’s only film project - he's currently shooting ‘Honey’, about a dancer who becomes a successful music video choreographer, in Toronto, and recently finished a television pilot, ‘Pieces of the Puzzle’, which is touted as an updated version of The Partridge Family. On the recording front his next album ‘Game Time’ has a 17 Dec US release date on his father’s No Limit Records.