Juliet and Romeo are separated not by family feud but by social strata. Romeo is a humble mail clerk in Verona Legal Services and Juliet is the daughter of the CEO; when Juliet’s father uses the Necronomicon to summon outer god Yog Sothoth all Hell is literally unleashed. Now our star crossed lovers must battle Fate, the forces of darkness, and parental disapproval so that they might spend eternity together.

Horror… But not a horror, Action.. but not an action
At the heart of the film is Shakespeare’s original story and while that story contains elements of Horror near the end and Action in the middle, the story is about the people . While we increase the levels of both Horror and Action, we don’t forget that the people come first – so primarily this is a story about relationships Juliet with her Dad, Romeo with Mercutio, and each for the other.

Upping the Horror, Upping the Action
We up the horror with the introduction of another literary creation, one belonging to the 20th Century’s greatest horror writer – H.P. Lovecraft. We adapt Lovecraft’s Cthulhu mythos to give us an army of the undead that keep our lovers apart, and the Outer God Yog-sothoth who controls the doorways between the past and the present and distant worlds. To balance the scales, we equip our heroes with weaponry and let them fight for survival with extreme prejudice.

Financing
We’ve set our initial budget at £15,000 which should cover our equipment/props and wages for our cast and crew. But we need help to raise that money, a selection of goodies will be announced along with our different funding levels in the near future. When that happens we ask for your help to make this film a success.

Shooting Date
All our plans are based around shooting in November. Because most of the movie will be set at night, we need early darkness to maximise our shooting times.

Release Date
We aim to have the UK Premier at the Dead by Dawn Film festival which is in April 2011, further updates will be given on the web page at http://www.julietandromeo.co.uk

Background
Team Gecko began 10 years ago, producing films of various “Jackass” style stunts. Throughout the last decade we’ve produced Music Videos and in 2009 made Two Short Films “Vindicated Echo” and “Snipers”

Release
Teamgecko are strongly committed to Free culture. Free as in Freedom of Speech rather than Free Beer. As such the movie will be released under a Creative Commons Attribution, Non-Commercial, Share Alike License allowing everyone who buys or receives the movie to share it on providing it is similarly released