With 'Tick, Tick ... Boom!' and 'Encanto,' Lin-Manuel Miranda isn't throwing away his movie shots
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Lin-Manuel Miranda is not throwing his shots, and in 2021, the creator of "Hamilton" has been getting a whole lot of them.
After his earlier work "In the Heights" became a critically admired (if little seen) movie, Miranda has made his directing debut with "Tick, Tick ... Boom!," a loving adaptation of "Rent" creator Jonathan Larson's coming-of-stage story, and written eight original songs for "Encanto," a Disney animated film featuring a predominantly Latinx cast. That follows another animated movie, Netflix's "Vivo," which he produced in addition to writing the music.
Although he is working from a script by Steve Levenson ("Dear Evan Hansen"), Miranda has clearly approached "Tick, Tick" as a deeply personal ode to musical theater in general and in particular Larson, who tragically died on the eve of what would become "Rent's" record-breaking run at the age of 35.
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