It seems like only yesterday that Hailee Steinfeld was that spunky little cowgirl in True Grit… but now she’s all grown up, and getting it on with Douglas Booth! The actors bring two of literature’s most memorable lovers to life in Romeo & Juliet — which also stars Gossip Girl‘s Ed Westwick and Homeland‘s Damian Lewis — and from the looks of the just-released trailer, it’s going to be epic.

WATCH: First Official ‘Romeo & Juliet’ Trailer

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Paul Wesley might be taking a walk in Damon Salvatore’s shoes very soon, as Variety is reporting the Vampire Diaries star been offered the role of the County Paris in the upcoming big-screen version of Romeo and Juliet. I mentioned Damon because, of course, Paris is the one who comes in second to Romeo (Douglas Booth) — at least as far as Juliet (Hailee Steinfeld) is concerned.

As someone who played the oft-forgotten Paris in my own high school production of Romeo and Juliet – my death scene was horrendous, by the way — I’d love to see Paul give the character the spotlight he truly deserves. (Not that Paul Rudd didn’t do a phenomenal job in Baz Luhrmann‘s Romeo + Juliet.)

Besides all that, Gossip Girl‘s Ed Westwick has already been cast as Juliet’s cousin Tybalt, and I’d be super-down for another CW Palooza on the big screen.

It’d be just like The Roommate, only even more Shakespearean!

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Hailee Steinfeld — who stole the show as the wily teen girl in True Grit — will be transformed into one of history’s most notorious star-crossed lovers in a film adaptation of Romeo & Juliet. The 14-year-old actress will star alongside 19-year-old LOL actor and face of Burberry Douglas Booth in a version of the story that writers promise will follow closely to Shakespeare’s original play.

“I wanted Hailee because she is the perfect age. Juliet is at that stage of what you might call a child/woman. Just like Hailee herself is,” writer Julian Fellowes told the Sunday Times.

Some critics were weary of the film’s young starlet because she was originally set to bare it all in a sex scene with co-star Douglas despite her tender age. However, adaptations to the script have been made to accommodate the young actress in order to keep their romance age-appropriate. The writers feel it was necessary to cast young stars instead of older ones who could indulge in racier scenes to really capture the essence of a first love.

“[It's] about that first love affair. We all remember it, don’t we? There is never a love again like it,” revealed Julian.

Tell us what you think of Hailee’s on-screen romance with Douglas, who is five years her senior! Do you think Hailee and Douglas will make a good Romeo and Juliet?

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