What TIME Hamilton Releases on Disney+ | Screen Rant
A film version of Hamilton will be streaming on Disney+ from July 3, but what time will it release? Written by Lin-Manuel Miranda, who also originated the title role, Hamilton is follows the life of Alexander Hamilton, from his youth in the American Revolution to his influence on the new nation as the first Secretary of the Treasury. The show premiered Off-Broadway in 2015 before quickly transferring to Broadway proper where it was met with massive success, including 11 Tony Awards and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Hamilton has also had the largest impact on popular culture of any Broadway musical in recent memory, with the versatile appeal of its hip-hop-influenced music propelling the cast album to unprecedentedly high sales and further critical acclaim.
Although a feature film adaptation of the show is reportedly in the cards, the version of Hamilton coming to Disney+ will be a recording of the original Broadway stage production. Almost all of the original cast was still attached at the time of recording, meaning Miranda will star alongside the likes of Frozen's Jonathan Groff and Snowpiercer's Daveed Diggs. Miranda's screen credits since leaving Hamilton have included Moana, Mary Poppins Returns, and both of J. J. Abrams's Star Wars films.
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Hamilton will release at midnight PST (3:00am EST) on Friday 3 July. The release will be simultaneous for every country in which Disney+ is available, but the date is likely meant to capitalize on the USA's Fourth of July Weekend. The show's impassioned look at American history makes this thematically appropriate, but it is the modern lens that it uses, including casting actors of color as the Founding Fathers, that makes the premier especially timely.
Despite the film seeming in most respects to be an incredibly faithful depiction of the show's original production, some edits have been implemented in the transition. Notably, Hamilton will be lightly censored, removing two uses of "f**k," found in "Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down)" and "Washington on Your Side." Miranda explained that, like some other Disney+ edits to otherwise innocuous movies, this was done to maintain a PG-13 rating and thereby not restrict the film from a younger audience.
Hamilton has been so resoundingly celebrated by now that the raw quality of the show can hardly be questioned. However, Disney+ is not streaming the original production, but a filmed version of the original production, which is a different thing entirely. Thankfully, early reviews have been uniformly positive regarding the ability of Thomas Kail, credited as the director of both, to translate the language of live theater onto the small screen. And even if the experience will still be fundamentally different, the wide accessibility that comes with online distribution means that, this Fourth of July, many more people will be able to enjoy a vision of American history that is as vibrant and vivacious as it is reflective and critical, all traits that are sorely needed these days.
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