Lin-Manuel Miranda is having a busy year. In June, he premiered both In the Heights, an adaptation of his first Broadway musical, and the trailer (above) for tick, tick...BOOM! his feature directorial debut. The new movie is an adaptation of composer Jonathan Larson’s autobiographical pre-Rent musical and will star Andrew Garfield in the Larson-inspired role. Tick, tick...BOOM! is set to premiere this fall both in theaters and on Netflix.
Tick, tick...BOOM! premieres on November 12.
The movie will be released in theaters on November 12. It will then be available to stream on Netflix beginning November 19. Tick, tick...BOOM! is set to make its world premiere as part of the November 10 opening night of the 2021 AFI Festival.
In the meantime, Miranda fans can stream his other 2021 movie musical, In the Heights, on HBO Max.
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On October 4, Netflix debuted the full length trailer for tick, tick...BOOM!. The trailer introduces audiences to Jonathan Larson prior to the creation of Rent and features a few of the musical's songs.
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The feature is an adaptation of Jonathan Larson's musical.
The new movie, set in 1990, centers around Jon, played by Garfield, a young New York City composer hoping to write the next great American musical. Throughout the original play, Jon's anxiety mounts, as he questions his career in the arts and grapples with pressure from his girlfriend, friends, and himself. All the while, the AIDS epidemic ravages the New York arts community, as Jon questions his own perceptions of mortality.
The real-life Jonathan Larson never actually got to see his own two great American musicals, as he died at age 35 on Jan. 25, 1996, the morning of Rent’s first off-Broadway preview. That subtext makes the posthumous filming of his autobiographical work all the more poignant.
Andrew Garfield will star as aspiring composer Jon.
Garfield is playing the role based on Larson himself. Also in the film are Alexandra Shipp, playing Jon's girlfriend Susan, who dreams of an artistic life outside of New York City, Robin de Jesús acts as Jon's friend, Michael, and Joshua Henry and Vanessa Hudgens play Roger and Karessa, singers in Jon’s show. Bradley Whitford also appears as famed composer Stephen Sondheim. MJ Rodriguez, Tariq Trotter, and Judith Light are slated to participate, as well.
