When composer John Williams opted out of writing the cantina music for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, J.J. Abrams enlisted Hamilton composer Lin-Manuel Miranda for the job.
On last night's episode of Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Abrams told the story of how Miranda got involved. 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. Watch him tell the full story below.
Abrams reached out to him later—and Miranda said he'd "drop everything" for it. "We've never discussed this before, and
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On last night's episode of Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Abrams told the story of how Miranda got involved. 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. Watch him tell the full story below.
Abrams reached out to him later—and Miranda said he'd "drop everything" for it. "We've never discussed this before, and
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