In last night's interview on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon, Star Wars director J.J. Abrams revealed that the new music for a scene placed in the infamous Mos Eisley Cantina was co-written with none other than Broadway's newest icon, Hamilton creator and star Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Abrams dished that the unlikely pairing was the result of a meeting after he saw a production of Hamilton, which has been declared an instant musical masterpiece. Miranda met with Abrams during intermission and said off-handedly that if the Lost creator wanted him to score music for a Cantina scene, he would do it.
The director was so impressed with Miranda that he immediately asked the MacArthur Genius Grant recipient and artistic polymath (who acts, writes, composes and raps) to turn the nonchalant, jokey comment into a reality.
Abrams, who called Hamilton "incredible ... beyond belief," also stated that seeing Miranda on Fallon's show, where the Broadway sensation performed in a rap battle with The Roots, was "the best television I've seen in the last ten years."
What about composer John Williams? Star Wars purists need not worry — while Miranda teamed up with Abrams to compose the diegetic music, Williams completed the score, which he requested to work on exclusively (and Williams' nickname for Abrams? "Jay-Jay Baby").
Star Wars: The Force Awakens hits theaters on Dec. 18.
Watch Fallon's interview with Abrams — and the original Cantina scene from A New Hope — in the video clips below.
Via: Wired
