Doctor Who star Karen Gillan will lead the cast of David Baddiel's directorial debut Romeo And Brittney.The actress has been cast as a New Jersey high-schooler who gets sent back in time to 13th century Verona and finds herself trapped in Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet.
"We both love literate teen comedies and we wanted to do our own version," he said. "After all, 10 Things I Hate About You was based on The Taming Of The Shrew just as Clueless was based on Jane Austen’s Emma and Easy A is inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter.
"And what is Twilight if it's not Romeo And Juliet with vampires and werewolves?”
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