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.
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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.
Tick, tick, BOOM! will also star Alexandra Shipp (X-Men: Apocalypse), Robin de Jesús (Camp), Joshua Henry, MJ Rodriguez (Pose), Bradley Whitford, Tariq Trotter, Judith Light, and High School Musical’s Vanessa Hudgens. Steven Levenson joins as a writer on tick, tick, BOOM! alongside Larson. Levenson is also currently working on the film adaptation of the musical Dear Evan Hansen, starring Ben Platt, due later this year.
Tick, tick, BOOM! joins a host of Broadway musical films being released this year, including the previously mentioned In The Heights and Dear Evan Hansen. The newest film adaptation of West Side Story is on the way, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Ansel Elgort. Amazon Prime Video picked up the film adaptation for Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, set to hit the streamer in September. Emmy winner Peter Dinklage and Haley Bennett will star in the MGM movie musical adaptation of Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano De Bergerac, will Joe Wright on as director.
Tick, tick, BOOM! will premiere on Netflix in the fall.
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Huh. Not big on musicals, but I’ll give this one a go. I know little of Larson’s story.
Sort of wish they had a gay dude play the lead, just feels like the respectful thing to do. But idk, maybe Garfield is queer and has to be quiet about it.
Why? Jon is straight, as was the real Jonathan Larson.
I had no idea. Thanks!
A lot of people think Larson died of AIDS, probably because of Rent (and just generally being a theatre guy who died young in the 90s).
Probably because they aren’t aware that Rent is La Boheme, except with TB swapped out for a disease that 90s audience would be more likely to understand is deadly and dangerous.
God does that mean we are due for a new 2020 Rent where the disease is Covid-19?
Yes, and it’ll be your fault for putting the idea out into the universe.
Oh that musical is absolutely in the pipeline.
omg I just always thought he was a fellow queer, my bad lol lol!!! look at me making my own gay ass assumptions!
Why would casting a gay man in the lead be respectful, though? The main character is straight, and he’s a self-insert for the composer, Jonathan Larson, who was straight. The character Michael is gay, and is played by Robin de Jesús, a gay actor.
I honestly thought Larson was gay my entire life woops lol lol
Pedantry alert, but it’s not like this is some surprise announcement out of nowhere today; we saw our first image from it back in January in one of Netflix’s self-promotional trailers, and the project filmed last year.Nice trailer, though. It’s at the very least a prolific year for movie musicals, and hopefully most of them are good.
So does this one have the same crap as Rent about how anyone who isn’t broke and dying of AIDS is an evil sell-out?
I mean, Rent was a loose adaptation of La Bohème, so wasn’t that to be expected?
From the Wikipedia synopsis:“Michael tries to persuade [Jon] to stick with [his art career]. Michael says that while he enjoys how he makes a lot more money now than he did as a starving artist, he finds the job itself to be emotionally banal and unrewarding. The two argue, and Jon yells at Michael for not understanding fear or insecurity. Michael responds by telling Jon that he is HIV-positive.”So… sort of?
I’ve been assured that there was a six month stretch in the 90s where for white people Rent was in fact relevant
This looks like it could be good, but my deep hatred of Rent gives me pause.
“Musical haters just keep losing this year, and musical lovers have another film to get excited about.”I’m enjoying the image of “musical haters” updating their “musicals produced in 2021″ tallies, shaking their fists, and screaming at the heavens.
Q: How do you know someone hates musicals?
A: Oh, don’t worry, they’ll tell you.
I feel like you’ve got that backwards lol.
It definitely would work just as well regarding people who love musicals, agreed.
I mean, I feel like “hating musicals” isn’t exactly something people go parading around or force into conversation though. Like sure, they might not be shy about it but there has to be some kind of invitation for that information…usually something along the lines of “hey, let’s watch this?”.People who love musicals on the other hand…well, in my experience they’re pretty obvious about it in one way or another. Like let’s be real, there’s only one type of person that tries to turn reality into a musical number lol.Take my buddy’s wedding for example. His best man gave a normal and heartfelt speech about them as individuals and as a couple, Her maid of honor knocked out a couple of cliches before breaking into her own rendition of that rent song (that I’m like 60% sure was mostly just the actual song). Guess which one is which lol (spoiler alert: neither the bride nor the groom care for musicals so it sure as hell wasn’t for them lol).
I don’t like them, but I’m not mad that others (like Mrs. Hubbard) do like them.
This looks good. Vanessa Hudgens is such an underrated performer, I hope this gives her more recognition than Hairspray did. I love musicals, so I can’t wait to get home and watch In The Heights. I’m still too scared to go into theatres yet.
“MIRANDAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
::Petit woman starts beating up everyone in the bar::
Nice one.
I remember doing a theatre workship singing Actions Speak Louder Than Words. Pretty nifty this is getting the film treatment!
You want a EGOT, then you don’t sleep. Sleepers don’t get EGOTs
Ironically, insufficient sleep prevents one from properly enjoying their EGOT. It’s a no-win situation.
I hear EGOT winners never have a cold bed…
Also in the article, ELGORT. I guess that’s for performers who also win a Légion d’honneur and MLB’s Rookie of the Year.
It’s for EGOT for winners that have hunted down and killed Ansel Elgort.
no one’s reputation has been inflated more by the “soft bigotry of low expectations” than lin manuel miranda’s.
♪ Bo-bo bo-bo ♪ no.
Music by Saliva?
You went and stole all the thunder from my superior joke “Don’t confuse this with ‘Click Click Boom’ a jukebox musical based on the songs of Saliva.”
I remember when this was announced probably over a year ago, and I read up on the synopsis. I was immediately hating it, but this trailer has me doing second thoughts that this may be worthwhile. For the record, I’ve seen Rent once and thought it was crap. But it is good to be familiar with, because culture and whatnot. Andrew Garfield also seems to be a better actor than I thought since they cast him aside from the first Spiderman reboot. He was definitely miscast in that role.
Tonight on Star Trek, the away team beams down to a planet totally over run by Theater People.
“Theater People??? …take off and nuke it from orbit , only way to be sure.”
Hey those theater people had it right. Wesley broke their laws and he should have been murdered for it.
*Russ Tamblyn pirouettes into frame and stabs a Red Shirt, snapping fingers*
Russ: “Hah!”
*Russ then leaps off camera laughing giddily*
“This is the Vulcan hand gesture for ‘live long and prosper.’ And this is the Vulcan jazz hand gesture for ‘razzmatazz.’ ”
I got a “Boom! Shake the Room” (by DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince) notification for this?
Garfield plays JonBoy does Garfield EVER play Jon. When he wants lasagna, he GETS it.But seriously, I’m a little surprised this one is getting adapted as I remember it getting middling reviews and the only reason people found it interesting was because they wanted to more from a revered man who produced precious little work. “RENT” has definitely not aged SUPER well, but it was highly influential for a generation of Broadway-goers and theater kids.
Looks like Miranda learned the right lessons from Chu. Looks good!
I know it’s autobiographical, but I’ve never seen a production that leaned SO HARD into the Jonathan Larson aesthetic in terms of the main character’s dress.I also assume we’ll be looking at a big “Give Lin an Oscar” between the songs in Vivo, this and In The Heights.