A Pre-Hamilton Lin-Manuel Miranda Could Have Turned The Book Of Life Into 'A Hip-Hop Salsa Reggaeton Musical'

Dec 9 2022 by /Film

 

The year was 2007. Lin-Manuel Miranda had yet to conquer Broadway with "Hamilton," much less position himself as the heir apparent to Alan Menken at Disney. Meanwhile, DreamWorks Animation was still making "Shrek" sequels and had somehow convinced itself "The Bee Movie" was a good idea (more on that later). Enter Jorge Gutiérrez, who had only just made his name with the flash-animated Nickelodeon series "El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera," which he co-created with his fellow...

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