2 months ago
Lin-Manuel Miranda will nonstop a movie adjustment of playwright-composer Dave Malloy‘s Octet, a critically acclaimed philharmonic that debuted Off Broadway successful 2019.
The task was revealed coming by Miranda’s 5000 Broadway Productions, which besides announced that shaper Julie Oh is joining nan institution arsenic nan caller Head of Film & TV and will service arsenic shaper connected Octet on pinch John Skidmore for Best Kept Secret Productions and Luis A. Miranda, Jr., President, 5000 Broadway Productions.
Writer and composer Malloy is adapting his ain book of a philharmonic for nan surface type and will besides service arsenic Executive Producer.
Octet will beryllium Miranda’s travel up to his two-time Academy Award nominated film directorial debut tick, tick…BOOM! Oh served arsenic a shaper astatine Imagine Entertainment wherever she produced tick, tick…BOOM! and oversaw nan film’s acquisition by Netflix.
Cast announcement will beryllium forthcoming.
“I haven’t stopped reasoning astir Octet since I saw Annie Tippe’s premiere accumulation successful November of 2019,” Miranda said successful a statement. “Dave Malloy’s people is versatile, superb and grows much applicable pinch each passing year. It won’t time off maine unsocial truthful present we are.”
Said Malloy, “I americium complete nan satellite that Lin-Manuel is turning Octet into a movie. I was utterly gobsmacked by his activity connected tick, tick…Boom!, and consciousness truthful honored to person specified a beacon of nan philharmonic theatre world bring this portion into a caller life. As a superb storyteller, chap net junkie, and beloved friend, I cognize he’s going to make thing amazing. And our formed is wholly ridiculous.”
Octet tells nan communicative of 8 internet-obsessed group who meet successful a religion basement and fastener their phones successful a box. The “octet” struggle pinch integer dependency and floor plan their compulsions utilizing only “the analog vibrancy of their ain voices.”
“With witty lyrics, shimmering harmonies, and virtuosic solos, Octet sings of connection, redemption, dream – and really we tin beryllium genuinely coming pinch each other,” today’s announcement reads.
After Octet, Malloy was Tony-nominated for his 2016 Broadway philharmonic Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812.
Executive Producers connected nan Octet movie are Johnny Holland (Friendship, Dumb Money), Owen Panettieri, and Diana DiMenna. The movie is being financed and Executive Produced by Sander Jacobs, Caren Jacobs, TodayTix Group, Jeffrey Seller, Teresa Tsai, and John Gore for Broadway.com.
Regarding Oh’s hiring astatine 5000 Broadway, Miranda said, “Julie Oh is simply a masterful shaper and imaginative pinch a clear vision. Her contributions to tick, tick…BOOM! were basal to its very existence, and I’m looking guardant to continuing our collaboration connected Octet and pinch early projects astatine 5000 Broadway Productions.”
