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Lin-Manuel Miranda helped J.J. Abrams write the new ‘Star Wars’ cantina music

This collaboration is like some kind of 2015 pop-culture Mad Libs story, and we love it.

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The two biggest fandoms of 2015 just collided in the best way possible, with J.J. Abrams revealing that Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda worked on Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

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In an interview with Jimmy Fallon, Abrams said that he and Miranda collaborated on the cantina music for the new Star Wars movie. Incredibly, this whole situation happened because Miranda is a huge Star Wars fan and Abrams is a huge Lin-Manuel Miranda fan, so it sounds like the collaboration was a delightful love-fest from beginning to end.

Miranda chimed in on Twitter after the interview, saying that he and Abrams had worked together twice a week for the past two months—on the same days when Miranda was performing in Hamilton.

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In retrospect, maybe it isn’t so surprising that the two busiest people in show business ended up working together. Do either of these guys even have time to sleep? 

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