Andrew Garfield Circling Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Musical ‘Tick, Tick… Boom!’ at Netflix

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s feature adaptation of Jonathan Larson’s musical Tick, Tick…

Boom! has landed at Netflix following a heated bidding war, and according to Variety, Andrew Garfield is the top choice to star.

I’ve actually heard that Garfield has been seeking some type of music-driven project for the last several months, and this one, from the late creator of Rent, sounds like a good one.

Set in 1990, Tick, Tick… Boom! follows Jon, an aspiring theater composer who is waiting tables in New York City while writing a musical called Superbia that he hopes will launch …

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