Lin-Manuel Miranda to Direct Film Adaptation of Dave Malloy's Octet

The musical about screen addiction will be produced by 5000 Broadway Productions.

April 02, 2026 By Diep Tran

Lin-Manuel Miranda has announced his newest directing project: Octet, Dave Malloy's a cappella musical about screen addiction. And the musical itself will be on a screen, because Octet is about to become a movie musical, as part of Miranda's 5000 Broadway Productions, which also oversaw his screen adaptation of tick, tick... Boom! starring Andrew Garfield.

Said Miranda in a statement: "I haven’t stopped thinking about Octet since I saw Annie Tippe’s premiere production in November of 2019. Dave Malloy’s score is versatile, brilliant and grows more relevant with each passing year. It won’t leave me alone so here we are.”

Octet premiered in 2019 at Off-Broadway's Signature Theatre. It follows strangers in an internet addict support group. The cast album—featuring Adam Bashian, Kim Blanck, Starr Busby, Alex Gibson, Justin Gregory Lopez, J.D. Mollison, Margo Seibert, Kuhoo Verma, Jonathan Christopher, and Nicole Weiss—is available to stream.

Malloy (Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812) will write the Octet screenplay and also serve as executive producer. "I am over the moon that Lin-Manuel is turning Octet into a movie!" he said in a statement. "I was utterly gobsmacked by his work on tick, tick...Boom!, and feel so honored to have such a beacon of the musical theatre world bring this piece into a new life. As a brilliant storyteller, fellow internet junkie, and dear friend, I know he's going to make something amazing. And our cast is completely ridiculous."

The Octet cast has not been announced.

Miranda's production company, 5000 Broadway Productions, also named Julie Oh as its new head of film and television. Under the direction of Miranda and his father, Luis Miranda, 5000 Broadway Productions was a producer on the 2021 In the Heights film, the live stage capture of Hamilton on Disney+, and the FX limited series Fosse/Verdon.

Octet the film will also be produced by John Skidmore for Best Kept Secret Productions, and Luis Miranda. Executive producers are Johnny Holland, Owen Panettieri, and Diana DiMenna. The film is being financed and executive produced by Sander Jacobs, Caren Jacobs, TodayTix Group, Jeffrey Seller, Teresa Tsai, and John Gore for Broadway.com.

See photos from the 2019 Off-Broadway production of Octet below.