The Grammy Awards happened Sunday night across the Pond, so of course, it was a prime opportunity for Warners to launch the new trailer for In The Heights, based on Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda's first big produced musical.
Crazy Rich Asians director Jon M. Chu is at the helm here, working from a script by Quiara Alegría Hudes, who worked on the musical's book with Miranda. Hamilton veteran Anthony Ramos stars as Usnavi, the role Miranda originally inhabited, a bodega owner in the largely Latin Washington Heights district of New York – a neighbourhood facing the pressures of gentrification and escalating rents. The film tells the story of Usnavi’s generation, a tapestry of characters exploring and navigating their personal identities as the neighborhood begins to change. It’s set predominantly over the course of a weekend, as the temperature soars, a power grid failure causes a blackout, and someone bags a winning lottery ticket. Plus Lin himself plays a small but important side-character, a Piragua seller, who you can briefly glimpse here.
Corey Hawkins, Leslie Grace, Melissa Barrera, Olga Merediz, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Stephanie Beatriz and Jimmy Smits are among the cast for the film, which will dance its way into UK cinemas on 25 June, and June 18 in cinemas and on HBO Max in the States. You can read our trailer breakdown for the first teaser with Chu here.