Actor Lakeith Stanfield – who has recently acted in Get Out, Sorry to Bother You, and Donald Glover’s Atlanta – is set to star in a film adaptation of the graphic novel Prince of Cats.

The graphic novel, by author Ron Wimberly, is a hip hop-inspired retelling of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, set in 1980s New York. Stanfield will play Tybalt, Juliet’s cousin (this version is retold from his perspective). Expect plenty of duelling and music as the Capulets and Montagues navigate a retro – and violent – Brooklyn.

The producer and writer Selwyn Seyfu Hinds is also attached to assist with the adaptation of Wimberly’s story. 

If the role is enough to warrant Lakeith Stanfield's one and only Instagram post, he must be pretty excited.