Lin-Manuel Miranda to co-produce, write songs for Disney's 'Little Mermaid'

Written By DNA Web Team | Updated: Aug 18, 2016, 03:40 PM IST

Little Mermaid

The Broadway star is also co-writing the film.

Lin-Manuel Miranda, mastermind behind Pulitzer-winning play Hamilton, has been roped in by Disney to write songs for their Little Mermaid movie. He will serve as a co-writer with Alan Menken, reported Aceshowbiz.

The Broadway star will also produce the film alongside Marc Platt.

Mermaid is not the only project which Miranda is doing for Disney. He is also tapped to write songs for the Mouse House's animation Moana which stars Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and has contributed music for Star Wars: The Force Awakens as well.

Apart from Disney, Universal Pictures has also announced their own adaptation of the Hans Christian Anderson classic tale. Chloe Moretz is attached to play the lead role.