

Some fans are attempting to hold the largest lightsaber battle on the night of the premiere.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens comes to theaters December 18. Miranda is the master composer, creator, and star of Hamilton, the musical that is blowing everyone's mind on Broadway at the moment.
STAR WARS THE FORCE AWAKENS LIN MANUEL MIRANDA MOVIE
The director's version of the cantina scene is in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and Lin-Manuel Miranda is writing the music for it. It’s a wonder how Lin-Manuel has any time for anything at the moment, as he’s been busy working on his new movie In The Heights, a big-screen adaptation of his Broadway hit. Lin-Manuel Miranda has been building quite The Walt Disney Company resume. The one potential pull for non-EDM fans on the album was the collaboration between Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda and Force Awakens director J.J. So we've learned two things from Abrams' appearance last night. "We've never discussed this before, and might kill me for revealing this," Abrams said. Of course, its not the first time the pair have worked together as Lin-Manuel also contributed music to Star Wars: The Force Awakens in 2015. Abrams reached out to him later-and Miranda said he'd "drop everything" for it. Abrams Force Awakens Collaboration Now The track, which was remixed by Rick Rubin and A-Trak, will be included on Rubins Star Wars Headspace album. One lucky Star Wars fan who was able to see a preview early tweeted Lin-Manuel, 39, about his music credit at the end of the movie, to which he replied with teasing eye emojis. Abrams revealing that Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda worked on Star Wars: The Force Awakens. It started at Hamilton's intermission,where Abrams was seeing the show with his son, when Miranda approached Abrams and joked that he'd be interested in writing the music for the movie's cantina scene. The two biggest fandoms of 2015 just collided in the best way possible, with J.J. We'd tell you to rush out and see Hamilton now, to celebrate this news, but your chances of finding available tickets for Miranda's show are about as strong as securing opening night The Force Awakens tickets for Friday, December 18.On last night's episode of Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Abrams told the story of how Miranda got involved. Worked on it between 6pm & 7:30 on 2 show days for the past 2 months. He and I were sending back and forth music files, he's singing and playing instruments, and now in the movie, in this one sequence, is music that me and Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote." "He's like, 'I'll drop everything.' By the way, I saw him on your show, and it was probably the best television I've seen in 10 years. "I end up emailing Lin Miranda and I say 'I know you were kidding but if you actually want to write this music, I'm actually working on something,’’ Abrams told Fallon. Last night on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, J.J. But then Abrams learned that composer John Williams didn’t want to handle the new scene’s score, leaving room for the Hamilton creator’s input. Abrams discussed his meeting and collaborating with Lin-Manuel Miranda with Jimmy Fallon last night.

They first met after a Hamilton matinee, where Miranda quipped that he'd love to write the new movie’s cantina tunes, not thinking it'd actually happen. (And you thought the names on Game of Thrones were bizarre.) No word yet on whether John Boyega's Finn will kick some intergalactic bully ass in Abrams' cantina, but we do know that the music will be first-rate.ĭuring his chat with Fallon, Abrams dropped an exciting little factoid bomb: He co-wrote the The Force Awakens' cantina scene's music with Lin-Manuel Miranda, the musical mastermind behind the hugely popular and critically acclaimed play Hamilton. Lucas' cantina is where Luke Skywalker and Obi Wan Kenobi first link up with Han Solo and Chewbacca to hitch a ride with them to Alderaan, but only after Luke almost gets in a barroom brawl with an Aqualish named Ponda Baba. Abrams, the Hamilton creator and star wrote music for. While on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon last night, Abrams revealed that The Force Awakens will include a new cantina scene, directly calling back to the beloved sequence in Lucas' Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. There might be a million things Lin-Manuel Miranda hasn’t done, but he can cross this one off the list: According to Star Wars director J.J. And today’s news should amplify that enthusiasm tenfold. And who can blame them? With each new commercial and trailer, the new Star Wars keeps looking better and better, giving even the biggest cynics all the more reason to be excited. Abrams' Star Wars: The Force Awakens gets closer by the day, die-hard fans of George Lucas' original movies are understandably reaching a fever pitch.
