{"id":129124,"date":"2019-01-31T10:30:32","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T15:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/?p=129124"},"modified":"2019-01-31T10:30:32","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T15:30:32","slug":"corey-hawkins-joins-anthony-ramos-in-film-adaptation-of-in-the-heights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/corey-hawkins-joins-anthony-ramos-in-film-adaptation-of-in-the-heights\/","title":{"rendered":"Corey Hawkins Joins Anthony Ramos In Film Adaptation Of &#8216;In the Heights&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload alignleft size-medium wp-image-129127\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 300 253'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Corey-Hawkins-and-Anthony-Ramos-300x253.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"253\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2019\/01\/in-the-heights-movie-corey-hawkins-as-benny-jon-m-chu-lin-manuel-miranda-1202545509\/\">Deadline<\/a>\u00a0is reporting that<strong>\u00a0Corey Hawkins<\/strong> (Straight Outta Compton) has been cast as Benny, one of the lead characters to the upcoming feature adaptation of <strong>Lin-Manuel Miranda<\/strong>\u2019s Tony-winning play <strong>In the Heights<\/strong>. He joins A Star Is Born&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Anthony Ramos<\/strong>, who was already announced to play the lead.<\/p>\n<p>The film is set in Washington Heights in New York City and focuses on a bodega owner Usnavi (played by Anthony Ramos) who is closing his store and retiring to the Dominican Republic after inheriting his grandmother\u2019s fortune. The musical won the 2008 Tony Award for Best Musical.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload alignright size-medium wp-image-129128\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 300 169'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/In-The-Heights-logo-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the novel and play, Benny is the only character who doesn\u2019t speak Spanish.\u00a0He falls in love with Nina, who the neighborhood admires as \u201cthe one who made it out.\u201d She enrolled in Stanford, but dropped out and returns home. Benny works for\u00a0Nina\u2019s father, Kevin, and dreams of\u00a0opening his own business. However, Nina\u2019s father refuses to accept Benny as Nina\u2019s beau.<\/p>\n<p>He works for Nina\u2019s father at the taxi dispatch office and falls in love with Nina while dreaming of opening his own business and struggling with her father\u2019s disapproval of their relationship.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload alignleft size-medium wp-image-74477\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 212 300'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Corey-Hawkins-1-4-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hawkins, who made his breakout in the 2015 N.W.A. biopic<strong> Straight Outta Compton<\/strong> as the rap group\u2019s co-founder Dr. Dre, has been seen in AMC\u2019s <strong>The Walking Dead<\/strong>, <strong>Kong: Skull Island<\/strong> and had the lead role in Fox\u2019s short-lived spin-off <strong>24: Legacy.<\/strong> He was most recently seen in Spike Lee&#8217;s acclaimed Best Picture Oscar nominee <strong>BlacKkKlansman<\/strong>, and will next be seen in Christoph Watlz\u2019s directorial debut <strong>Georgetown<\/strong>, and the Netflix ensemble action film <strong>Six Underground<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jon M. Chu<\/strong> (Crazy Rich Asians) will direct from a script written by <strong>Quiara Alegr\u00eda Hudes<\/strong> (Hamilton). Miranda, Anthony Bregman, Mara Jacobs, and Scott Sanders will serve as producers on the project. Miranda portrayed the lead role of Usnavi in the Broadway musical, and also wrote the music and lyrics.<\/p>\n<p>In The Heights will be filming next summer on location in NYC\u2019s Washington Heights. It\u2019s scheduled to open in June of 2020<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deadline\u00a0is reporting that\u00a0Corey Hawkins (Straight Outta Compton) has been cast as Benny, one of the lead characters to the upcoming feature adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda\u2019s Tony-winning play In the Heights. He joins A Star Is Born&#8217;s\u00a0Anthony Ramos, who was already announced to play the lead. 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