Ben Platt & Kaitlyn Dever's 'Dear Evan Hansen' Movie Gets September Release Date

The upcoming Dear Evan Hansen movie adaptation has just been given a release date!

The film version will premiere in theaters on September 14th, Universal Pictures announced, via Deadline.

Ben Platt will be reprising the title role, for which he won a Tony award for.

Kaitlyn Dever, Amandla Stenberg, Nik Dodani, Colton Ryan, Amy Adams and Julianne Moore also star.

Here’s a synopsis: “The story follows Evan Hansen, a high schooler with social anxiety. He unintentionally gets caught up in a lie after the family of a classmate who died by suicide mistakes one of Hansen’s letters for their son’s suicide note.”

Stephen Chbosky is directing the movie, with a script by Steven Levenson, who also wrote the book for the stage musical. The musical’s songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, along with Steven also serve as executive producers, as well as Ben‘s dad Marc Platt.