Lin-Manuel Miranda to direct film adaptation of OCTET

[KevinKlawitter]

Posted: 4/2/26 at 9:17am

Dave Malloy Executive Producing and writing the screenplay. Casting tba

[Kad]

Posted: 4/2/26 at 9:20am

I love this score but really cannot imagine it as a film. I’ll be curious to see what they do.

[ColorTheHours048]

Posted: 4/2/26 at 9:24am

Pretty exciting news. Tick Tick Boom was a show I never got into, but LMM's adaptation made it feel exciting and better than the material itself. Octet was a show I started out liking when I saw it, but felt lost its way toward the middle section, and definitely could have afforded to explode out of its production confines more. A movie adaptation could be exactly what it needs to fully click.

[Alex Kulak2]

Posted: 4/2/26 at 9:55am

If I had infinite Hamilton and Encanto money, I would also be forcing my musical hyper-fixations on the world. He's just like me 🥲

Very much looking forward to this movie absolutely ruling my life.

[Jeffrey Karasarides]

Posted: 4/2/26 at 9:58am

Bill Condon has talked about how there's not a lot of stage musicals he thinks should be made into movies. To some extent, I do agree with him. Although in some cases, you need a real visionary to completely rethink it cinematically. Which is exactly what Rob Marshall accomplished with Chicago.

Lin has said that "I want to direct funky little musicals that no one else would make as a movie." As someone who personally finds Tick, Tick...BOOM! to be the very best movie musical of the decade so far, I'll definitely be following this project.

[darquegk]

Posted: 4/2/26 at 10:10am

Someone once said "it's not about what a piece means, it's about HOW a piece means." Lin is someone woh gets that instinctively: he's neither someone who reinvents the wheel for its own sake, nor is he someone who is so overly precious with what he adapts that it feels limited or stuck.

I'd love to see him do a film adaptation of Company, and completely rebuild it from the ground up as a stylistic homage to the New Hollywood of the early 1970s. To me, Company resembles nothing so much as "what if you made a classic-era Woody Allen movie as a stage musical instead of a film," and it would be interesting to see the needle threaded in reverse and the musical rebuilt as a cinematic "product of its generation."

[Jeffrey Karasarides]

Posted: 4/2/26 at 10:42am

darquegk said: "I'd love to see him do a film adaptation of Company, and completely rebuild it from the ground up as a stylistic homage to the New Hollywood of the early 1970s.""

I actually would love to see him tackle Next to Normal.

[jasmiinda]

Posted: 4/2/26 at 10:44am

I had to check when this was posted. Super unexpected.

[round2]

Posted: 4/2/26 at 10:58am

What a wonderful piece of news. I love that he's using his power and access to resources this way. Good on Lin-Manuel!