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‘Every fear you’re supposed to have as a New Yorker’: Lin-Manuel Miranda on rebooting cult movie The Warriors
The creator of Hamilton and the writer Eisa Davis explain why they turned the classic film into a Jesus Christ Superstar-style concept album, with the help of hip-hop royalty – from Ghostface Killah to Lauryn Hill
In his novel, Yurick’s all-male, “fight-ready” Coney Island gang the Dominators (renamed the Warriors in the film) form both family and army, their exaggerated machismo leading to an actual pissing contest. Miranda’s chief change was to make all the Warriors female, a decision inspired by the Gamergate incident in 2014, which he sums up as “terminally online dudes doxing women who dared to like video games”. In the movie, Luther was played by musical theatre star David Patrick Kelly, who based his portrayal on the New York Dolls after meeting them while working at the famous nightclub Max’s Kansas City.
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