
It has recently been announced in
Variety that director/choreographer Kenny Ortega will be helming the forthcoming film version of the multiple Tony Award-winning hit Broadway musical
In the Heights. This development could bode very well for the movie of
In the Heights, as Ortega has already led the
High School Musical franchise on to multi-millionaire dollar success and worldwide fame. Kenny Ortega also directed the Disney cult favorite musical
Newsies (starring Christian Bale) and the recent Michael Jackson concert film
This Is It. Other details are still sketchy about the upcoming
In the Heights musical film, but it is known that the current plan is for co-creator and original star Lin-Manual Miranda to reprise his lead role as Usnavi. And the show's Tony-nominated bookwriter, Quiara Alegria Hudes, will be writing the adapted screenplay.