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!

[Hey, Zelda!]

Posted: 4/2/26 at 11:57am

The path from "gmorning, gnight" to an Internet detox musical is a winding one.

[darquegk]

Posted: 4/2/26 at 12:05pm

Jeffrey Karasarides said: "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."

He'd do a great adaptation, but my heart of hearts says we want a horror director for n2n who will recognize the genre and allow it to be genuinely disturbing as much as it is moving. Like... Mike Flanagan maybe.

[TheGingerBreadMan]

Posted: 4/2/26 at 12:59pm

This is so exciting. I saw Studio Theatre in DC’s production of this show last month and it was moving and excellent. Lin is a talented director and I look forward to this. 
 

Also, a Next To Normal movie should be directed by Ari Aster. 

[Ptero2]

Posted: 4/2/26 at 1:01pm

Rachel Zegler posted a cryptic picture on IG a month back of the word “Octet” in a crossword puzzle. Looks like this might be her rumored movie musical.

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 4/2/26 at 1:23pm

It's a gorgeous musical and I think Lin could do something really interesting with it on screen.

It is being independently financed, and probably relatively low-budget, so between Lin and the alleged ridiculousness of the cast they should have no trouble drumming up a bidding war for the rights after it screens someplace like Sundance or Telluride.

Wonder when cameras will roll?

[Jeffrey Karasarides]

Posted: 4/2/26 at 5:09pm

Lin teased on his Instagram stories that the full cast will be revealed soon.

[schubox]

Posted: 4/2/26 at 5:53pm

Holy ****. I’m way too excited for this. I saw the premiere in nyc, then in Berkeley, DC and going to Chicago next month. It’s a top 5 for me.

[bear882]

Posted: 4/3/26 at 9:17pm

I hate to be the skeptical one, because I thought Tick… Tick… BOOM! was an unexpectedly fantastic movie musical so I refuse to doubt Lin-Manuel Miranda’s ability to bring out the best of the material. And I love that he’s directing a Dave Malloy musical.

But I cannot fathom how this show works as a film, even if I can imagine the ways a director can open up the musical.

I was listening to the score again last night, and I was reminded of the fact that most of the songs last forever, and even though it sounds like Malloy, he’s not at his most tuneful here. I realize that’s part of the point, and I enjoyed the show when I saw it at the Berkeley Rep. 

So we’ll see. I like the idea of Miranda directing this show when he could be doing anything else and attracting an interesting cast. 

[MezzoDiva47]

Posted: 4/4/26 at 12:40am

 

this is a vanity project by miranda and malloy

which sounds like the name of a law firm

while artistic success is possible

commercial success is impossible

there is zero mainstream appeal

perhaps they can stunt cast oak

he must have some free time ever since they killed off his character on stagnant 19

 

[KevinKlawitter]

Posted: 4/4/26 at 12:58am

MezzoDiva47 said: "

this is a vanity project by miranda and malloy

which sounds like the name of a law firm

while artistic success is possible

commercial success is impossible

there is zero mainstream appeal

perhaps they can stunt cast oak

he must have some free time ever since they killed off his character on stagnant19

"

If this is supposed to be a poem, I think your meter is off a little bit 

[raddersons]

Posted: 4/4/26 at 10:40am

Making whatever art you want when you’re otherwise not attached to it is vanity now? People produce and sponsor art for any number of reasons, where it’s commercial investment or just that they like the art someone makes. If Miranda has the money to make good art for arts sake, why not?

ugh I should have looked at who I was responding to before I posted 

Updated On: 4/4/26 at 10:40 AM

[raddersons]

Posted: 4/4/26 at 10:46am

I am giggling thinking of people watching this on their phones and having an existential crisis 

[darquegk]

Posted: 4/4/26 at 11:02am

raddersons said: "I amgiggling thinking of people watching this on their phones and having an existential crisis"

I was on the train to New York in early 2016, watching the first leaked bootleg of Hamilton, while posters of LMM in costume as Hamilton festooned almost every corner of the Amtrak (he was the cover story of their magazine at the time). It was a weird feeling.

[schubox]

Posted: 4/4/26 at 5:04pm

bear882 said: "I hate to be the skeptical one, because I thoughtTick… Tick… BOOM!was an unexpectedly fantastic movie musical so I refuse to doubt Lin-Manuel Miranda’s ability to bring out the best of the material. And I love that he’s directing a Dave Malloy musical.

But I cannot fathom how this show works as a film, even if I can imagine the ways a director can open up the musical.

I was listening to the score again last night, and I was reminded of the fact that most of the songs last forever, and even though it sounds like Malloy, he’s not at his most tuneful here. I realize that’s part of the point, and I enjoyed the show when I saw it at the Berkeley Rep.

So we’ll see. I like the idea of Miranda directing this show when he could be doing anything else and attracting an interesting cast."

The only thing I see being really hard to adapt is Little God. There's a lot they can do to flesh out the songs/characters 

[Alex Kulak2]

Posted: 4/6/26 at 5:38pm

Apparently filming is imminent, as Lin just posted pictures of set construction on Instagram.

Updated On: 4/6/26 at 05:38 PM

[MezzoDiva47]

Posted: 4/6/26 at 9:21pm

raddersons said: "Making whatever art youwant when you’re otherwise not attached to it is vanity now? People produce and sponsor art for any number of reasons, where it’s commercial investment or just that they like the art someone makes. If Miranda has the money to make good art for arts sake, why not?

 

mallloy has some degree of talent

but also a level of arrogance that would make richard wagner blush

he constantly pushes the limits of what ppl are able to tolerate
 


ugh I should have looked at who I was responding to before I posted"

 

thank you

MezzoDiva47 has spoken

bow down accordingly

 

Updated On: 4/6/26 at 09:21 PM