It is an adaptation of the Jonathan Larson musical of the same name, which reflects his struggles to be able to create art and his fear of growing old without achieving success.
Los Angeles (AFP) .- Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creator of the Broadway sensation Hamilton, said Wednesday that he returned to his first love, cinema, with his directorial debut of Tick tick… Boom!, but he confessed that he also wants to write another musical.
The film, which premiered at the AFI Fest in Los Angeles, is a tribute to Jonathan Larson, the writer of Rent and who was the Broadway whiz kid in the generation before Miranda.
“Cinema was my first love. I fell in love with movies, my grandfather had a VHS video store when I was a child: Miranda Video ”, said Miranda to the AFP.
“I spent my summers seeing everything, little of which was appropriate for a 7- or 8-year-old, but I saw everything!” He said. “So I feel like I have returned to my first love.”
Tick tick… Boom! is an adaptation of Larson’s musical of the same name, which reflects his struggles to create art and his fear of growing old without achieving success.
Larson died at just 35 years old, without being able to see and enjoy the great popularity, and the range of Tony Awards – in addition to the Pulitzer – that would win Rent.
“It’s the only movie I ever dreamed of making as a movie, even before I had a chance to direct,” said Miranda, who saw Larson’s musical as a college student.
“It was the month after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, when everyone was wondering ‘what am I doing with my life?'”. “And the whole musical is about ‘what are you doing with your life?’
“It felt like a personal attack and a call to action,” he said.
The film goes back and forth between Larson – played by Andrew Garfield – performing the original rock monologue. from Tick tick… Boom! on stage in New York, and the flashbacks to the events in his life that inspired the play.
“I brought the music that I love – Latin and hip hop – to my work in the same way that Jonathan brought rock to his,” Miranda said.
“By applying his thesis in some way, I feel like his student.” “And it has worked quite well!”
‘Eager to write’
Although Tick tick… Boom! is Miranda’s first film as a director, his services have been increasingly requested in Hollywood after the enormous success of Hamilton.
Disney bought the rights to streaming for a recorded version of the performance of Hamilton -that tells the story of America’s founding fathers through hip-hop- for $ 75 million.
Miranda also produced a film version of her first musical, In The Heights, and wrote the songs for the upcoming Colombia-inspired Disney magic realism film called Charm.
Garfield, who starred in The Amazing Spider-Man told the AFP that Miranda “achieved (in the filming) an atmosphere of community that is really only experienced in the theater and that is not found very often in the cinema.”
Co-star Joshua Henry joked that on this first dive as director Miranda sometimes “said cut when she meant action and vice versa.”
“But watching him find his own way was really inspiring,” he said.
While delays due to the prolonged closure of cinemas due to the pandemic has caused several of the film projects to coincide in their releases, the artist told the AFP that he has returned to “seeing as much theater as possible” on Broadway.
“And I’m looking forward to writing again too, once the wave of all these movies that are all coming out in the same week due to the pandemic passes.” “And I’m also excited to clear my desk.”
Editorial note THE UNIVERSE: Tick tick… Boom! It will premiere on Friday, November 19 on Netflix.
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