Hollywood Has Been Sitting on a Lin-Manuel Miranda Animated Musical for Six Years

This chronicle is almost too crazy to be true . We all roll in the hay Lin - Manuel Miranda . He ’s multiple award - winning whizz behind Hamilton who avail write vocal for Moana and now has several labor in the work with Disney . Well , it turns out he already work on an animise musical called Vivo , but Hollywood just did n’t make it .

Vivo is about “ a capuchin monkey with a hungriness for dangerous undertaking — and a passion for music — that makes a treacherous passage from Havana to Miami to fulfill his fate , ” according to Deadline . After the Tony - award make headway success of his first melodious , In the Heights , DreamWorks Animation hired Miranda to compose 11 songs for the film but it just never came together . Then Hamilton befall . Moana pass off . Miranda became one of the most essay - after creatives in the world , and Vivo , a film with 11 completed Miranda birdcall just sitting there , quietly made the move to Sony Animation .

So judge what ’s materialize now ? Sony has specify a release escort of December 18 , 2020 for the film . Quiara Alegría Hudes , who worked with Miranda on In The Heights , is write the handwriting and Kirk De Micco , manager of The Croods , will direct .

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