Lin-Manuel Miranda may be one of the nicest guys in Hollywood right now, but obviously, he won’t allow his work, his great work, to be manipulated and distorted for profit or indoctrination. The creator of “Hamilton”, the Broadway musical you can watch from home on Disney +, entrusted his lawyers with a complaint against a production “Christianized” Of his work, which represented the church of The Door McAllen.
It turns out that the theater group of this Texas spiritual group is dedicated to making religious versions of various productions without paying, of course, any license. They already did this with ‘Beauty and the Beast’ in 2018, advertising it with the Disney movie poster in real action with Emma Watson and a devoted message in which the Beast was “saved” in the end: “At least I was able to see you for the last time and know the true love of Jesus Christ”says the character in the scene where he is dying. While they could have used the story as inspiration and saved themselves trouble, they included the “Evermore” theme, composed specifically for the 2017 film, for which they would have had to pay separate royalties. Other movies they have “conditioned” to faith and the Christian gaze include “Toy Story” and “Despicable Me”.
The “Hamilton” case.
In the case of “Hamilton”, Miranda’s text is protected and at the moment no function of any outside group is allowed, much less a church that changes sentence at will. As we see in these Tweets with clips from the comedy shared by journalist Hemant Mehta, they changed entire lines to include Jesus in the plot:
More from the illegal Christianized “Hamilton” of The Door McAllen church.
The song should go:
“But I’m not afraid
I know who I married
Until you get home at the end of the day
It would be enough ” pic.twitter.com/CUitoUXQ34? Hemant Mehta (@hemantmehta) 8 August 2022
The original letter says:
“But I’m not afraid. I know who I married. As long as you get home at the end of the day, that would be enough.”which translates as: “I’m not afraid. I know who I married. As long as you get home at the end of the day, that will be enough.” However, in the Christianized version we hear: “But I’m not afraid, my hope is in Jesus. If you could give it a chance at the end of the day, it would be enough. “.
To make matters worse, at the end of the performance, the parish priest of the church, Víctor López, took the stage to give a sermon in which compared homosexuality to a drug addiction that people had to overcome. This Tuesday, August 10, Hamilton spokesman Shane Marshall Brown released the following statement to USA Today: “Hamilton does not license any theatrical production to amateurs or professionals and has not licensed any to The Door Church. We are issuing a letter of termination and desist for the unauthorized use of ‘Hamilton’ intellectual property, asking for the immediate removal from all videos and images from previous internet productions, including YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, as well as your website and other places. The “Hamilton” family stands for tolerance, compassion, inclusion and certainly LGBTQ + rights. We are reviewing unauthorized changes to the script to determine further action. ”
Lin-Manuel Miranda, has finally intervened in the controversy with a tweet in which he labels the work of “illegal and unauthorized production”including a Playwrights Guild statement denouncing the “blatant violation” from the church and informed the people that the lawyers were working on the case:
Grateful to all of you who have contacted this illegal and unauthorized production. Now the lawyers do their job.
And always grateful to @drammatistigilda, who have the backs of writers everywhere, be it your first play or your 50th. 1/2 https://t.co/yMtM3z9crI? Lin-Manuel Miranda (@Lin_Manuel) August 10, 2022
“I am grateful to everyone who brought this illegal and unauthorized production to my attention. It is now in the hands of lawyers. And forever grateful to the Playwrights’ Guild, which has the backs of writers everywhere, whether it’s their first. theatrical work or their fiftieth anniversary “.
Source: E Cartelera
