Lin-Manuel Miranda's In the Heights Movie Lands at Warner Bros.

<img src="https://https://static2.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/In-the-Heights-musical-with-Lin-Manuel-Miranda.jpg" /><p>Warner Bros. has landed the movie rights to Lin-Manuel Miranda's stage musical <a href="https://screenrant.com/tag/in-the-heights/"><strong><em>In the Heights</em></strong></a>. Miranda is best known these days for making U.S. history cool with <em>Hamilton</em>, but <em>In the Heights</em> was the show that made the beloved composer, lyricist, and actor's name. The musical hit Broadway in 2008 (though it began its theater run three years earlier) and was nominated for a whopping thirteen Tony Awards (it won four, including Best Musical). Universal was quick to snap up the film rights less than a year after the show's Broadway debut.</p><p><em>In the Heights</em> features music and lyrics by Miranda, as well as a book by Pulitzer Prize winner Quiara Alegría Hudes. The show takes place over the Fourth of July weekend in Washington Heights and follows Usnavi de la Vega (the role first played by Miranda), the owner of a small local bodega. Over the course of the show, the Heights' largely Latino-American citizens are stirred up into a ruckus by blackouts, financial concerns, romantic tensions, and the revelation that one of their neighbors has a winning lottery ticket.</p> <strong>Click to continue reading <a href="https://screenrant.com/lin-manuel-miranda-heights-movie/">Lin-Manuel Miranda's In the Heights Movie Lands at Warner Bros.</a></strong><br /><br /> <p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://screenrant.com/lin-manuel-miranda-heights-movie/">Lin-Manuel Miranda's In the Heights Movie Lands at Warner Bros.</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://screenrant.com/">ScreenRant</a>
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May 17, 2018 at 08:05PM