Tromeo & Juliet

Tromeo & Juliet (1996)

Body Piercing, Kinky Sex, Dismemberment. The Things That Made Shakespeare Great

All the body-piercing, kinky sex, and car crashes that Shakespeare wanted but never had! Join Tromeo and Juliet as they travel through Manhattan's underground in search of climactic love, violence and the American Way.

Date of release
1996-08-30
TMDB
6.0 / 10 (169)
Runtime
1h 47m
Genres
Comedy, Romance
Director
Lloyd Kaufman

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Budget: $350K
  • Based on: Romeo and Juliet

Tromeo and Juliet is a 1996 American independent transgressive romantic black comedy film and a loose adaptation of the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare from Troma Entertainment. The film was directed by Lloyd Kaufman from a screenplay he co-wrote with James Gunn, who also served as associate director.

Production

The first draft of Tromeo & Juliet surfaced in 1992, written by Kaufman and Troma employees Andy Deemer and Phil Rivo, written entirely in Shakespearean verse and supposedly featuring The Toxic Avenger as a side character. The feedback from other Troma employees and Michael Herz was unanimously negative, so the idea was scrapped.

In 1995, another shot was taken at the concept, this time by newbie screenwriter James Gunn. Gunn completely rewrote the script, again in Shakespearean verse, making it darker and far more obscene; the original version had Juliet as a stripper and Tromeo as a crack dealer. Another revision, with additional material by Kaufman, was crafted into what the film eventually became: the verse was trimmed down and more comical elements were added.

Tromeo and Juliet was shot in the summer of 1995 for $350,000, one of the most expensive films in Troma history.

Director Lloyd Kaufman said that, in preparation for their sex scene, he gave Will Keenan and Jane Jensen time during pre-production to block the scene themselves. "I wanted them to develop a very intense relationship and indeed they did. But they decided that they shouldn't actually have off-screen intercourse until after the movie.

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