'Hamilton' to premiere in cinemas this September
Disney released the trailer for the the award-winning hip-hop musical, confirming that the theatrical version will feature an exclusive cast reunion.
This is also in honor of the show's 10th anniversary.
"Hamilton," written by Lin-Manuel Miranda, tells the story of Alexander Hamilton, one of the founding fathers of the United States of America and its first Treasury Secretary. It also explicitly tells the story of the American Revolutionary War against the British.
The film version previously streamed on Disney+ in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic.
'Hamilton' also visited the Philippines in 2023 and was staged at The Theater at Solaire.
Rachelle Ann Go returned to the Philippines to play Elizabeth Schuyler. —Nika Roque/JCB, GMA Integrated News
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And what do you hope that the audiences will take from it? Ari Aster: I wrote this film in a state of fear and anxiety about the world, and I wanted to try to pull back and describe, show what it feels like to live in a world where nobody can agree on what is real anymore. I feel like over the last 20 years, we've fallen into this age of hyper-individualism. We have that social force that used to be kind of central in liberal mass democracies, which is an agreed-upon version of the world. That is gone now. And COVID felt like the moment when that link was finally cut for good. I wanted to make a film about just what America feels like to me and what it felt like to me at that time. And it felt bad. I think it felt bad for everybody. And I'm very worried. What do you hope people take away? Ari Aster: I think we need to re-engage with each other. And that's central for me. How about the Believe in America part? Ari Aster: The film is about people living in different realities. 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Emma Stone: It was, when Ari sent me the script, I think he's one of the greatest writers that we have, filmmakers as well, but just getting to read his writing is an incredible experience. And so, he and I sat and talked about Louise, about the character for quite a while, and sort of arrived at the word ghost, because she is a bit of a ghost in her own life. At that point, there's so much that she's been through. There's clearly trauma, even though it's not completely spelled out. There's a lot that she's bringing to it. And her marriage to Joe is in a precarious space for her being in this lockdown with her mother there, who's really reading a lot of things, and her mind is being filled with so much. And so, I thought of her as a ghost and then a specter over Joe's life as he's making these decisions. It was a really interesting challenge and something I had never really gotten to access before and then to be there with Ari and with Joaquin and Austin and everybody, it was really kind of beautiful and heartbreaking to find. Joaquin, what was it like playing a character in a satirical film set during COVID-19 and how did it resonate with your own personal experience? Joaquin Phoenix: I think my personal experience felt very different to Joe's experience for sure. What if it didn't? But yeah, it was great to make this film and with Ari about someone who desperately is seeking validation and connection. And during a time when we were all in lockdown and we were physically separated from each other. And so, we sought connection through our online presence, and it just exacerbated the problem. We see this guy who I think is really, for me, I have a lot of love for the character. I have a really warm friend. And to see him kind of spiral out throughout the course of the film was an interesting character for me to play. Contributed photo For Pedro and Emma, we leave everybody the fake news and they come from the lockdown. I would like to know if there is any personal experience during this period for you that you brought to mind preparing your character in this movie. Pedro Pascal: I was afraid to go back, really. I was isolated and in relationship to my algorithm and feeling very similarly to Ari, at least after I read his script, I felt like he wrote something that were all of my worst fears and realized as far as what that lockdown experience was and what it promised to deliver in all of its sort of like fracturing of an already fractured society, but still kind of like what Ari had said was that this building towards an untethered sense of reality and then finally going into a chapter that becomes a point of no return in a way, like there's no going back. I definitely was overwhelmed by that fear and it's lovely to have it confirmed by Ari. Emma Stone: I think that was beautifully said and I feel the same way. The only additional thing that scared me a little bit in the algorithm system was looking into some of the things that are in this film that hadn't been in the algorithm system was looking into some of the things that are in this film that hadn't been in my algorithm, unfortunately added them to my algorithm because once you start Googling it, you start seeing more and more things that really, so it just gets, it's a real rabbit hole very quickly. So unfortunately, I'm still getting fed some crazy shit from here. So, it's talking about rabbit holes and algorithms and stuff that happened in 2020. Because we're talking about crypto bros and cult leaders in the movie as well. I want to know during the lockdown, what's like the weirdest rabbit hole you went down? Or like a quirk you picked up like sourdough bread or tarot cards or weird-for-you pages on TikTok? Pedro Pascal: I started to watch the only thing I could watch I remember for a period because to protect myself I guess from the algorithm for some reason I got I started to watch everything that Lara Flynn Boyle was in. I started and so that there were like several seasons of like David E. Kelly's The Practice and it was all on Hulu, and I just watched that and reality shows about like Airports, I think there was like old A&E like people just losing their shit at the airport or trying to move their house in boxes but using Southwest Airlines instead of a shipping company and stuff like that. I was educating myself. Austin Butler: I was in Australia working on Elvis so all I was thinking about was that at the time I was trying to think of anything that wasn't that. I wish that I was watching Southwest Airlines moving videos. How do you see the future of America? Ari Aster: I don't speak English. (laugh) I think we're on a dangerous road, and I feel like we're living through an experiment that is going, it's gone wrong, it's not going well, and it feels like there's no way out of it. Suddenly, there's like this bad, bad power out there. It's always been there, but right now it's chaos. It feels like we're living in an experiment that probably should be stopped or paused, because it's not working. I think people feel very powerless and very fearful. And I think that's part of being in your bubble, right? —MGP, GMA Integrated News
