Universal picks up 'Juliet' for Mangold

Universal has picked up the movie rights to Danish author Anne Fortier's novel Juliet.

3:10 To Yuma director James Mangold and wife and producing partner Cathy Konrad will oversee the project for the studio, says The Hollywood Reporter.

The book, which will be published in 2010, is inspired by William Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo And Juliet. The story moves between medieval Siena and the present day as a woman discovers that she may be a descendant of the doomed lovers.

Mangold's next directing venture is expected to be time travel movie The Archive.