Won't be seeing this when it comes out, as I am getting sick and tired of Hollywood remaking its past with inferior updates. Ben-Hur (2016 vs. 1959), oh please!!!! The original West Side Story was a superior coming together of rarefied talents and a multi-Oscar-winning classic directed...
Remakes of classic movies always a bad idea. Enough said.
Addendum: John Waters said it best, "You shouldn't remake the good movies. You should try and remake the bad ones in the hopes of making them better!"
PS - there's nothing in a remake of West Side Story that hasn't already so...
Bad idea - period. As already suggested elsewhere in these posts - if you must 'remake' a movie, choose from a roster of 'good ideas' executed poorly in the hopes to improve upon their nuggets of wisdom. Occasionally, you can do a remake as an update: herein, the remakes of Father of the Bride...