Hamilton

3 July 2020160 min, ,

I am the one thing in life I can control.

Plot:

Presenting the tale of American founding father Alexander Hamilton, this filmed version of the original Broadway smash hit is the story of America then, told by America now.

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Cast & Crew

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Alexander Hamilton

Phillipa Soo

Eliza Hamilton

Daveed Diggs

Marquis de Lafayette / Thomas Jefferson

Christopher Jackson

George Washington

Jasmine Cephas Jones

Peggy Schuyler / Maria Reynolds

Okieriete Onaodowan

Hercules Mulligan / James Madison

Anthony Ramos

John Laurens / Philip Hamilton

Jonathan Groff

King George III

Sydney James Harcourt

Phillip Schuyler / James Reynolds / Doctor/ Ensemble

Camera

Declan Quinn

Director of Photography

Production

Jon Kamen

Co-Executive Producer

Justin Wilkes

Co-Executive Producer

Dave Sirulnick

Co-Executive Producer

Jill Furman

Executive Producer

Writing

Crew

Directing

Editing

Fun Facts of Movie

  • Ron Chernow, who wrote the Hamilton biography that inspired Lin-Manuel Miranda in the first place, was initially skeptical about making a musical from Hamilton’s life, but changed his mind after his first meeting with Miranda, who stressed that he wanted Hamilton to be taken seriously by historians and asked Chernow to help him develop the script. Chernow said his skepticism melted the moment he heard Miranda’s first song, and was completely on board afterwards. He’s supposedly seen the show dozens of times, always as a paying customer.
  • Filmed over the course of three days in June 2016. It started by filming a live Sunday matinee performance with cameras in the audience, after which the cast and crew spent the rest of the day and evening filming close-ups, dolly shots and crane shots. Filming continued all day Monday (normally the cast’s day off) with more close-ups and Steadicam footage. More filming took place on Tuesday morning, before shooting another live performance on Tuesday evening, with cameras again in the audience but in different positions. Lin-Manuel Miranda said, “it was basically a three-day film shoot with the best-rehearsed cast in the history of the movies, ’cause we’d all been doing the show for a year at this point.”
  • At the time the show was filmed, Jonathan Groff had already left the role of King George, replaced by Rory O’Malley. He returned especially for this filming. He also provides, in character, the voice of the pre-show announcer at the beginning of the film, welcoming the audience to the show.
  • Rather than being a traditional adaptation of the musical for the big screen, such as Les Misérables (2012), West Side Story (1961), or Cats (2019), this is instead a filmed version of the stage show with the original Broadway cast performing the roles. The recording was filmed in June of 2016, just before several key members of the original cast, including Lin-Manuel Miranda, ended their run in the show.
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