Lin-Manuel Miranda<\/strong> has already conquered Broadway with \u201cIn the Heights\u201d and \u201cHamilton,\u201d and he has proven his bona fides in film as an actor (\u201cMary Poppins Returns\u201d), composer (\u201cMoana\u201d), and producer (\u201cIn the Heights\u201d). So what\u2019s next for Miranda? A spot in the director\u2019s chair with his feature filmmaking debut \u201cTick Tick Boom.\u201d Netflix<\/strong><\/a> has released a new trailer for the film, which stars Andrew Garfield as \u201cRent\u201d creator Jonathan Larson<\/strong><\/span>. Following a world premiere at AFI FEST in Los Angeles, the film opens in theaters on November 12 and streams on Netflix starting the following week.<\/p>\n Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Lin-Manuel Miranda<\/strong> makes his feature directorial debut with \u201ctick, tick\u2026BOOM!,\u201d an adaptation of the autobiographical musical by Jonathan Larson<\/strong>, who revolutionized theater as the creator of Rent. The film follows Jon (Academy Award nominee and Tony Award winner Andrew Garfield), a young theater composer who\u2019s waiting tables at a New York City diner in 1990 while writing what he hopes will be the next great American musical. Days before he\u2019s due to showcase his work in a make-or-break performance, Jon is feeling the pressure from everywhere: from his girlfriend Susan, who dreams of an artistic life beyond New York City; from his friend Michael, who has moved on from his dream to a life of financial security; amidst an artistic community being ravaged by the AIDS epidemic. With the clock ticking, Jon is at a crossroads and faces the question everyone must reckon with: What are we meant to do with the time we have?<\/p>\n The film stars Academy Award nominee and Tony Award winner Garfield opposite Alexandra Shipp, Tony Award nominee Robin de Jes\u00fas, Tony Award nominee Joshua Henry, Emmy Award nominee Mj Rodriguez, Emmy Award winner Bradley Whitford, Tariq Trotter aka Black Thought of The Roots, with Emmy and Tony Award winner Judith Light, and Vanessa Hudgens.<\/p>\n The film is written by Tony Award winner Steven Levenson (who wrote the book for \u201cDear Evan Hansen\u201d) and produced by Brian Grazer and Ron Howard for Imagine Entertainment, plus Julie Oh and Lin-Manuel Miranda<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Speaking to Jimmy Fallon earlier this year, Garfield said the following about working with Miranda: \u201cYou know Lin, he\u2019s like a crazy mixture of the most precocious eight-year-old genius student of life that won\u2019t stop talking and has a reference to everything, while simultaneously being one of the greatest creative geniuses of our time. It\u2019s this weird combination of having that eight-year-old running around your ankles, but that eight-year-old has also written \u2018Hamilton.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\nHere\u2019s the official synopsis courtesy of Netflix:<\/h5>\n
tick, tick\u2026BOOM! | Official Trailer | Netflix<\/h2>\n\n\n\n