Andrew Garfield to Play Lead in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tick, Tick… Boom!
Andrew Garfield has landed a new role. The actor is set to star in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s upcoming Netflix film, Tick, Tick… Boom!.
In this upcoming adaptation of “…the autobiographical Off Broadway show written by Jonathan Larson”, “Garfield is essentially playing Larson in a musical about the young playwright’s towering ambition. Garfield will play Jon, an aspiring theater composer who waits tables in New York City while writing Superbia, which he hopes will be the great American musical that will finally give him his big career break. The young man is feeling pressure from his girlfriend Susan, who is tired of continuing to put her life on hold for Jon’s career aspiration.
Meanwhile, Jon’s best friend and roommate Michael has given up on his creative dream and has taken a high paying advertising job on Madison Avenue and is preparing to move out. As Jon approaches his 30th birthday, he is overcome with anxiety, wondering if his own impossible dream is worth the cost.”
Production is scheduled to get underway next year.