The film adaptation of Tony-winning Broadway musical Dear Evan Hansen will hit theaters on September 24, Universal Pictures said on Friday.
Ben Platt is reprising his Tony winning title role alongside Amy Adams, Julianne Moore, Kaitlyn Dever, Amandla Stenberg, Colton Ryan, Nik Dodani, DeMarius Copes and Danny Pino. The story follows Evan Hansen (Platt), a high school student with social anxiety who is unwittingly caught in a lie after the family of a classmate who died of suicide mistakes one of Hansen’s letters for his friend’s suicide note. son.
Stephen Chbosky directed the photo from a script by Steven Levenson, who wrote the book for the stage musical, with music and lyrics by La La Land Oscar winners Benj Pasek and Justin Paul. Marc Platt and Adam Siegel will produce for Universal’s Marc Platt Productions. Michael Bederman, Levenson, Pasek and Paul and the executive producers.
From now on, Dear Evan Hansen competition that weekend in early autumn is Searchlight’s biogram Tammy Faye’s eyes and Warner Bros’ Sopranos prequela The Many Saints of Newark.
The musical is occupying the launch space Universal claimed for an untitled event film, which the studio said has now moved back a year to September 16, 2022.