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Director Alex Timbers teams with 500 Days of Summer screenwriting duo Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber for Universal Studios adaptation of Rebecca Serle's novel When You Were Mine, which tells the story of Romeo and Juliet from the perspective of Romeo's first love Rosaline, who he left after falling in love with her cousin Juliet. Set in the era of William Shakespeare's original but spoken in modern dialect, the story offers a seriocomic take on the oft-told tragedy.