Friday, November 07, 2008

New Heights

Universal Pictures has landed the screen rights to turn the award-winning Broadway musical "In the Heights" into a feature film says Variety.



The musical takes place over three days in the upper Manhattan neighborhood of Washington Heights. , where a bodega owner (played by the show's creator Lin-Manuel Miranda) inherits his late grandmother's lottery winnings and plans to close his store and retire on a beach in the Dominican Republic.

As he prepares to bid farewell , he suddenly realizes that his neighbors are his real family, and he's torn about leaving.

Miranda is expected to reprise his role in the film and produce the screen adaptation. Quiara Alegría Hudes, who wrote the book for the show, will also adapt the script.

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