Lin-Manuel Miranda In Talks To Write First Latina Princess in a Disney Movie

He’s proved that minorities can make bank on Broadway, and now Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda is in talks about creating the first Latina princess to star in a Disney movie, Page Six reports.

Disney has been criticized for the slow pace at which it has moved to include minorities in its big budget kid’s movies, and it is notable that Miranda was closely involved—as music co-writer—on the film Moana, which told the story of a Polynesian girl who battles ingrained sexist attitudes in a story drawn from the mythology of Samoa, Tonga and other South Pacific islands.

Now, however, Miranda, who is currently starring in a limited run of his Broadway smash as part of a fundraiser for hurricane-battered Puerto Rico, where his parents were born and still have a home, is said to be co-writing an animated musical featuring a young Latina heroine, conceived as a successor follow-up to Moana.

Miranda’s father, Luis, told Page Six, “He is talking to Disney about a sequel to Moana, but the movie would be about a Latina princess.”