When it came to Star Wars, Lin-Manuel Miranda surely did not throw away his shot.
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Abrams said the freestyling rapper approached him during intermission at a performance of Broadway’s hit hip-hop historical and said, “Hey, if you need music for the cantina, I’ll write it”. I remember standing with my dad in line at the mall for two, three hours to see it on opening day, and it was fantastic being a little boy in the seventies and early eighties when these movies were coming out.
Abrams then shared how John Williams refused to write music for the scene.
The behind-the-scenes footage sees director JJ Abrams and actress Daisy Ridley joking with the portly alien, assumed to be Pegg given the similarity in costume. But what’s incredible is that the movie we just did is about 40 years after “Star Wars: A New Hope”… Miranda’s written work for the show earned him numerous accolades, including the 2008 Tony Award for Best Original Score and the 2009 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album.
“During an interview on “Good Morning America”, he said: “‘Star Wars’ was always a boys’ thing, and a movie that dads could take their sons to.
“The reports have been so gratuitous that I tended to take them with a grain of salt”, wrote Myers, 20th Century Fox’s VP of domestic distribution, about what he was hearing from the production of the film.
And while it was also rumored that Luke will meet his demise in “The Force Awakens”, Hamill’s tweet on November 22 appears to confirm that his character will be back for Episode 8. Star Wars: The Force Awakens will be released in the U.S. on the 18th of December 2015.
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The fact that “Force Awakens” does have a cantina scene had been kept secret and caused Abrams to jokingly wonder if Miranda had obtained inside intel somehow.
