Overview
- Miranda’s 5000 Broadway Productions, which announced the project Thursday, set him to direct a feature film version of Octet.
- Dave Malloy, the show’s writer and composer, will adapt his own book for the screenplay and serve as an executive producer.
- Julie Oh has been named head of film and TV at 5000 Broadway Productions and will produce the film with John Skidmore and Luis A. Miranda, Jr.
- The film is being financed by Sander Jacobs, Caren Jacobs, TodayTix Group, Jeffrey Seller, Teresa Tsai, and John Gore for Broadway.com, with no distributor attached yet and casting to be announced.
- Octet tells of eight people who meet in a church basement to confront online addiction using only their voices, reflecting the musical’s a cappella design.