Lin-Manuel Miranda will direct a film adaptation of playwright-composer Dave Malloy‘s Octet, a critically acclaimed musical that debuted Off Broadway in 2019.
The project was revealed today by Miranda’s 5000 Broadway Productions, which also announced that producer Julie Oh is joining the company as the new Head of Film & TV and will serve as producer on Octet along with John Skidmore for Best Kept Secret Productions and Luis A. Miranda, Jr., President, 5000 Broadway Productions.
Writer and composer Malloy is adapting his own book of a musical for the screen version and will also serve as Executive Producer.
Octet will be Miranda’s follow up to his two-time Academy Award nominated film directorial debut tick, tick…BOOM! Oh served as a producer at Imagine Entertainment where she produced tick, tick…BOOM! and oversaw the film’s acquisition by Netflix.
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