Lin-Manuel Miranda will sleep when he's dead, so here's the trailer for his tick, tick, BOOM! film adaptation
The announcement of Lin-Manuel Miranda's next project, tick, tick, BOOM! comes the day of the release of the long-awaited musical film In The Heights.
Musical haters just keep losing this year, and musical lovers have another film to get excited about. The next Lin-Manuel Miranda project has been revealed, on the day of the release of the long-awaited and celebrated musical film In The Heights. Adapted from the autobiographical musical by Jonathan Larson, the creator of Rent, comes tick, tick…BOOM!, starring Tony Award winner Andrew Garfield. Miranda, a Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner, known for composing the soundtracks for musicals such as Hamilton and Moana, will makes his feature directorial debut in the upcoming film.
Garfield plays Jon, a a young theater composer who earns his money waiting tables at a New York City diner in 1990. As time continues to fly by, he feels the pressure to create the next great American musical. Larson very much achieved his goal with the creation of Broadway hit Rent, before his sudden death in 1996.