Lin-Manuel Miranda Joins Disney’s ‘DuckTales’ Remake

“Woo-oo.” The “Hamilton” creator is playing fan-favorite character Gizmoduck

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The already packed “DuckTales” just got even larger with the addition of “Hamilton” creator and star Lin-Manuel Miranda.

Disney XD — which is spearheading the reboot of the classic animated series — announced Friday that Miranda will be joining the voice cast as fan-favorite character with a Latino twist.

Miranda will be playing Gizmoduck, aka Fenton Crackshell-Cabrera — a superhero who protects Duckburg, but also spends his days as an intern for Scrooge McDuck’s personal mad scientist, Gyro Gearloose (in the original series, he was McDuck’s accountant).

“Growing up as a Cuban-American comics enthusiast, I was always hungry for a Latino hero to call my own.

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