Romeo and Juliet (1936 film) starred Katharine Cornell as Juliet, Basil Rathbone as Romeo, Brian Aherne as Mercutio, and Edith Evans as The Nurse. Rathbone is the only actor from the 1934 revival to appear in the film, albeit in the role of Tybalt rather than Romeo. On the stage Tybalt was played by nineteen year old Orson Welles. Thalberg's stated intention was "to make the production what Shakespeare would have wanted had he possessed the facilities of cinema." He went to great lengths to establish authenticity and the film's intellectual credentials: researchers were sent to Verona to take photographs for the designers; the paintings
Romeo and Juliet on screen to that of Romeo and Juliet. The 2007 anime "Romeo x Juliet" is a fantasy retelling of the famed play. In it, Juliet's family were rulers of a floating island nation called Neo Verona before being killed by the Montagues, forcing her to hide in a theater troupe owned by a fictional version of William Shakespeare. The play has also inspired two major Bollywood romantic dramas: Mansoor Khan's "Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak" (1988) starring Aamir Khan and Juhi Chawla and Sanjay Leela Bhansali's "Ram-Leela" (2013) starring Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone. "Tanna" (2015), the depiction of a "Romeo and Juliet"-like