Warner Bros. announced on Thursday that it will release the film adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda?s Tony-winning musical ?In The Heights? on June 26, 2020.
The announcement comes two weeks after Warner Bros. won an intense bidding war to pick up the rights to the musical after Miranda reclaimed them from The Weinstein Company in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal and the studio?s bankruptcy.
The rights were originally picked up by Universal, but were dropped in 2011 after the studio was reportedly reluctant to produce the film at a $37 million budget. They were then passed to TWC with plans to make the film on a $15 million budget. But after news broke of Harvey Weinstein?s history of sexual harassment and assault and TWC fell into financial collapse, the rights went back to Miranda and co-creator Quiara Alegría Hudes.
Now, with Miranda?s clout bigger than ever following the success of ?Hamilton? and movie musicals making a comeback after the success of ?La La Land? and ?The Greatest Showman,? ?In The Heights? became the most lucrative property from the TWC sell-off. WB bought the rights for a reported $50 million, and will have Jon M. Chu (?Crazy Rich Asians?) direct the project with Miranda producing. Miranda will not play the lead role as he did on Broadway, as he has aged out of the role.
07-06-2018 - Vidéo