Lin-Manuel Miranda is reportedly working on a stage musical adaptation of Sol Yurick’s 1965 novel, The Warriors.
As The New York Post first reported and Variety confirmed, the Hamilton writer is “hard at work” bringing the project to life.
Miranda’s team has yet to respond publicly to the claims, but that hasn’t stopped folks from speculating about what the show will entail. The Warriors is perhaps best remembered thanks to its 1979 film adaptation directed by Walter Hill. Following a New York street gang that must make its way from from the Bronx to southern Brooklyn, it’s a real “New York” kind of story, something Miranda is quite comfortable with.
His first Broadway musical, of course, was In the Heights, a love letter of sorts to the Washington Heights neighborhood in Upper Manhattan. Even his magnum opus, Hamilton, is set in New York, following the titular Founding Father as he arrives in the then-colonial city.
If you’d like to revisit Hamilton, the acclaimed musical is available to stream on Disney+.
Last year, Miranda made history when his song from the musical Encanto, “We Don’t Talk About Bruno,” hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, dethroning Adele’s “Easy on Me” and becoming the first song from an animated Disney movie to hit No. 1 since “A Whole New World” from 1993’s Aladdin.
