Fascinating Star Wars tidbits continue to drop out of the mouths of J.J. Abrams and all associated with The Force Awakens. The latest revelation is a dream come true for those who are also fans of Broadway’s Hamilton.
Hamilton creator Lin Manuel Miranda and Star Wars director J.J. Abrams revealed Monday that their two genius minds teamed up to create the music for Star Wars: The Force Awakens’s cantina-type scenes.
Abrams made the announcement while speaking to Jimmy Fallon on the November 30 episode of The Tonight Show. As the Force Awakens director explains, Miranda approached him during the intermission of Hamilton earlier this year and simply offered to write music for the cantina. As luck would have it, composer John Williams (who evidently calls JJ “JJ Baby”) had already told the director that he didn’t want to write the cantina music for the film.
And so, a partnership was born.
We did.
Worked on it between 6pm & 7:30 on 2 show days for the past 2 months.
JJ is the best.
Can't wait to see.
https://t.co/pPYu8nRsxI
— Lin-Manuel Miranda (@Lin_Manuel) December 1, 2015
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Speaking later to Entertainment Weekly, Abrams revealed that the scene “takes place on the planet of Takodana, where the alien pirate Maz Kanata (played via motion-capture by Lupita Nyong’o) maintains a kind of tavern. Abrams calls it a ‘watering hole’ that she has operated for various scofflaws and smugglers for nearly a century,” according to the report.
As you can see in the above clip, The Tonight Show’s audience didn’t grasp the magnitude of the announcement, but the internet understood. The news set fans of both fandoms into a spiral, and a new hashtag was born: #Force4Ham. The top trend on Twitter in the United States on Tuesday morning, the meme mashes up Hamilton lyrics with moments from the Star Wars movies:
"You strike me as a woman who has never been satisfied."
#Force4Ham pic.twitter.com/dwaoJalBVw
— Ellie Hall (@ellievhall) December 1, 2015
I got the same virtuosity & brains as my pops. The ladies say that's not where the resemblance stops…
#force4ham pic.twitter.com/VRdEH7TECp
— Hamilton's Squad (@hamiltonssquad) December 1, 2015
"I will kill your friends and family to remind you of my love" #force4ham pic.twitter.com/nWuYavAwkQ
— laura (@laurjbrown) December 1, 2015
? I've never had a group of friends before… ?
#force4ham
@Lin_Manuel pic.twitter.com/lO180sv1Pe
— Hamilton's Squad (@hamiltonssquad) December 1, 2015
WE ARE OUTGUNNED
OUTMANNED
OUTNUMBERED, OUTPLANNED
#Force4Ham pic.twitter.com/v1Mc2ggsKs
— Alanna Bennett (@AlannaBennett) December 1, 2015
"Yo, if you can marry a sister, you're rich, son."
"Is it a question of if, Burr, or which one?"
#Force4Ham pic.twitter.com/6Wwm4w4LdH
— Ellie Hall (@ellievhall) December 1, 2015
"Confession time? Here’s what I got. My fellow soldiers’ll tell you I’m a terrible shot." #Force4Ham pic.twitter.com/uWUYzjt45M
— David Wohlreich (@wallrike) December 1, 2015
You know you gotta get your right hand (man) back #Force4Ham pic.twitter.com/aSBD4Bllyn
— Ivan Plis (@ivanplis) December 1, 2015
"Such a blunder sometimes it makes me wonder why I even bring the thunder" #force4ham pic.twitter.com/C60bNX7Ogp
— Ryan McGee (@TVMcGee) December 1, 2015
"CALL ME 'SON' ONE MORE TIME!" #Force4Ham pic.twitter.com/gVazdJtJPQ
— Eric Haywood (@EricHaywood) December 1, 2015
Lin was very satisfied by today’s trend:
You know it's going to be a day when TOMMY KAIL calls and says,
"Have you been on Twitter yet?"
HE'S NOT ON TWITTER.
Gmorning!
#force4ham
— Lin-Manuel Miranda (@Lin_Manuel) December 1, 2015
The Force Awakens opens in theaters December 18.
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