Lin-Manuel Miranda to Direct Film Adaptation of Stage Musical OCTET

Hamilton creator and star Lin-Manuel Miranda has signed on to direct a film adaptation of playwright-composer Dave Malloy‘s Octet, a critically acclaimed musical that debuted Off Broadway in 2019.

The project was revealed by Miranda’s 5000 Broadway Productions, which also announced that producer Julie Oh is joining the company as the new Head of Film & TV and will serve as producer on Octet along with John Skidmore for Best Kept Secret Productions and Luis A. Miranda, Jr., President, 5000 Broadway Productions.

Writer and composer Malloy is adapting his own book of a musical for the screen version and will also serve as Executive Producer. Octet will be Miranda’s follow up to his two-time Academy Award nominated film directorial debut tick, tick…BOOM!

Oh served as a producer at Imagine Entertainment where she produced tick, tick…BOOM! and oversaw the film’s acquisition by Netflix.

Octet tells the story of eight internet-obsessed people who meet in a church basement and lock their phones in a box. The “octet” struggle with digital dependency and chart their compulsions using only “the analog vibrancy of their own voices.”

Stay tuned for casting and production updates.

via: Deadline