The musical remake is expected to shoot next year with the Baby Driver star as male lead.Baby Driver star Ansel Elgort has reportedly been cast as the male lead in Steven Spielberg’s new screen version of classic musical West Side Story.The film, written by frequent Spielberg collaborator Tony Kushner (previously nominated for Oscars for the director’s Lincoln and Munich), is expected to go into production next summer for Amblin Entertainment and 20th Century Fox.In the Romeo and Juliet-inspired story set in 1950s New York, Elgort will play Tony, leader of Anglo gang the Jets, who falls for Maria,
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