This is just one of the many ways that The Force Awakens is staying true to the stylistic roots of the franchise, and I can’t wait to see how it all comes together on December 18. Yes, the first new “Star Wars” film in a decade will feature a scene set in a cantina, a nod to the scene in 1977’s first “Star Wars” film.
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J.J. Abrams, the “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” director, revealed in “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon”, that he has collaborated with Lin-Manuel Miranda – the creator of hit musical Hamilton – to produce the new cantina music for the movie. He notes that composer John Williams, who helmed the original cantina scene in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, declined to tackle it this go-round. It started at Hamilton’s intermission, where Abrams was seeing the show with his son, when Miranda approached Abrams and joked that he’d be interested in writing the music for the movie’s cantina scene. “And he says hello, and my mind is blown because he’s so brilliant, and he says, “Hey, if you need music for the cantina, I’ll write it'”. Miranda is the composer and creative mastermind behind Broadway’s Hamilton.
Abrams and Miranda sent back and forth music files, which included Miranda singing and playing instruments.
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Miranda confirmed the collaboration on Twitter, saying the pair worked on the song in between “Hamilton” shows for the past two months.
