Writing Process

Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Hudes adapted the musical for the film.

22 March 2019:
When you find yourself working on new lyrics for Champagne for the first time in 12 years...

3 April 2019:
What it feels like rewriting Heights lyrics because younger me wrote such complicated rhyme schemes that if you move one tiny thing wrong... [gif of a Jenga tower falling]

Oh, but when you get it right... [another gif of a Jenga tower]

Quotes

 * Lin: “We're just further along as writers than we were 10 years ago. We were kids when we wrote the first draft,” Miranda said. “It just feels like this is the time. This is the summer. We're going to film it in our neighborhood. And I'm just, I feel like we're doing it the right way.”