This worked a little bit better than CATS. Adapting a stage performance for the screen is complicated... how come this version never missed a beat? Hamilton hit the stage in 2015, and it's been blowing sold-out audiences away ever since. A big-screen version was always inevitable. Lin-Manual Miranda's jazz/hip-hop retelling of the life of founding father Alexander Hamilton has won all kinds of awards, including a Pulitzer. But how do you take something so explosive and experiential to the big screen? Interestingly, it has come to the small screen first due to the current state of the world. Even so, it has amazed and thrilled audiences in this new format, not missing a beat. How? According to the New York Times, over the course of three days in June of 2016, the original cast recorded stage performances of the show Director Thomas Kail and his DP had a plan. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Monday, 6 July, 2020