Lin-Manuel Miranda I’ve always loved the 1979 action movie warriorshowever, he initially had doubts that it could be turned into a musical.

In 2009, some of Miranda’s colleagues emailed him to gauge his interest in adapting the film.

“I basically wrote back saying, ‘It’s never going to work,'” said Miranda, 44. Us Weekly At the release party on October 18, he and Eisa DavisMusical concept album based on the movie ‘, warriors. “Then my brain said, ‘Of course’… and now here we are, nearly 15 years later, with the entire 26-track album proving my mistake in 2009.”

miranda forgot warriors For a while, he was busy writing and starring in the hit Broadway musical. HamiltonIt opened in 2015. But the idea stuck with him.

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“I saw this movie when I was 4 years old, so this is one of those stories that I carry with me like a bag. And from the first few years of my life whenever I came up for air Hamilton … I wanted to write this,” said Miranda. “And I was so happy that Eisa agreed to write it with me.”

Now, warriors The concept album is just one album, but Davis, 53, said an eventual stage production is possible. Miranda explained that just starting with the record meant he got to build his “dream” team.

“We achieved our dream project by making an album. like, Nas she’s walking the red carpet right now!” he said. “Actually making the dream cast first was amazing.”

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Davis called warriors He gushed about the album being “a dream come true in so many ways” and his connection with Miranda.

“(I loved) being able to develop this artistic relationship with Lin that felt like we were family now in so many ways, you know?” he said We. “It’s almost like we share the same brain.”

Davis recalled an uncanny shared experience he and Miranda had while writing the album’s finale.

“(Lin) is a bit of a procrastinator, but that’s up to her and we hadn’t written the (finale) music yet. He had a splinter in his foot, and there was some kind of metaphor there. “I was like, ‘If I could just get this splinter out of his foot, maybe this finale could be written,'” the playwright recalled. “I took this splinter out, and then something happened physically in our bodies. We both had crazy cramps, and the next day it was like labor pains. The song came out. … Just that thorn.” I had to get it out of its clutches.

Davis has never seen warriors When Miranda asked him to co-write the album with her, however, he was intrigued by her decision to deviate from the OG movie by making the Warriors gang female.

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“It has some sexist, misogynistic, homophobic undertones that I don’t care about and I don’t think the world should either. right now — or any time,” he said.

While Davis said “we’ll see” about turning the album into a Broadway musical, he and Miranda have no plans to turn it into a movie.

“We’re not going to make a movie,” he insisted. “Because we made it as a love letter to film. So he was already in this environment. “What we’re interested in right now is letting this become an album and then we’ll see what happens.”

With reporting from Antonio Ferme