Lin-Manuel Miranda offered to write music for the new Star Wars movie as a joke. J.J. Abrams took him up on it. | The New Republic

December 1, 2015

Lin-Manuel Miranda offered to write music for the new Star Wars movie as a joke. J.J. Abrams took him up on it.

Appearing on The Tonight Show, Abrams explains how Miranda came to write the music for the Cantina scene in The Force Awakens. In other Star Wars news, George Lucas is defending the worst revision in cinematic history and comparing going to see Abrams’s Star Wars film to running into your ex-wife at a wedding.

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