After years trying to get it off the ground, the musical version of Les Miserables is finally heading for the big screen and it’ll be here this Christmas. However it’s slightly unusual, as while musicals normally having all the singing completed in a studio before the actors head to the set, director Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech) decided to get everyone to sing live. It was a brave decision, and now a new featurette has popped up online focussing on this aspect of the production. It certainly sounds like it could really make a difference to the film, but we’ll have to wait until December to truly find out. Take a look at the featurette above.
Loads Of New Pics From Les Miserables
With the promise of the first trailer later today, a slew of new images have emerged from Les Miserables via USA Today, Twitter and The Film Stage, which show us the likes of Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Amanda Seyfried, Anne Hathaway, Eddie Redmayne & more in the adaptation of the long-running musical.
Tom Hooper is directing the movie, which hits cinemas this Christmas. Set against the backdrop of 19th-century France, Les Misérables tells an enthralling story of broken dreams and unrequited love, passion, sacrifice and redemption–a timeless testament to the survival of the human spirit. Jackman plays ex-prisoner Jean Valjean, hunted for decades by the ruthless policeman Javert (Crowe) after he breaks parole. When Valjean agrees to care for factory worker Fantine’s (Hathaway) young daughter, Cosette, their lives change forever.
First Official Look At Hugh Jackman In Les Miserables
In the last couple of weeks, sneakily snapped paparazzi images of Hugh Jackman on the set of Les Miserables have been showing up online. Now Jackman has decided to trump them all, releasing the first official look at him in the movie on Twitter, all dolled up as convict Jean Valjean!
The long-gestating film version of the hit musical sees Jackman as Valjean, a prisoner who is on the run, with a dogged policeman named Javert (Russell Crowe) spending years tracking him down during the French Revolution. It’ll be in cinemas at the end of the year. The King’s Speech’s Tom Hopper is directing.
Les Miserables Gets Gossip Girl’s Aaron Tveit
After years in development, a film of the Les Miserables musical is about to go into production, with King’s Speech helmer Tom Hooper at the helm. The cast has been growing, with Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe as Jean Valjean and Inspector Javert, and Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried and Eddie Redmayne also along for the ride.
Now a the movie has added a revolutionary in the rather cute form of Gossip Girl’s Aaron Tveit has boarded the cast, according to THR. He’s set to play Enjolras, a character who leads the student revolution. While best known for Gossip Girl, Tveit does have some Broadway experience, so hopefully his voice will be up to scratcj.
Sacha Baron Cohen and Helena Bonham Carter are also rumored to be in talks for the film, although their involvement hasn’t been confirmed. It’s turning into a great cast, and hopefully Hooper’s the man who can do the musical justice. It’s due in cinemas at the end of this year.
Sacha Baron Cohen On For Les Miserables?
It’s yet to be confirmed, but it appears Sacha Baron Cohen may star in the musical adaptation of Les Miserables. The note of caution is because the info come from The Sun, which isn’t always 100% accurate with its film casting scoop (and that’s being charitable).
However assuming the info is corrent, Cohen will play the villainous innkeeper Thenardier, a role previously rumoured for Geoffrey Rush. Helena Bonham Carter is reportedly already onboard as his Thenadier’s wife, with the duo delighting in conning their customers. They also take in young Cosette, promising to take care of her in return for payment from her mother (Anne Hathaway). Howeve they turn the girl into a household slave instead. The film’s hero, Jean Valjean (Hugh Jackman), isn’t impressed with this and sets out to rescue the girl.
King’s Speech director Tom Hooper hopes to start shooting in February on the long-gestating project.
And if you’re wondering if Sacha can sing, he’s already shown off his pipes to good effect in Sweeney Todd.
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Eddie Redmayne Joins Les Miserables
After so many years of people trying and failing to get a film version of the Les Miserables musical off the ground, it’s hard to believe it’s really happening, but it is. Now the the cast has grown once more, with Deadline reporting that Eddie Redmayne is joining Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe and Anne Hathaway in the film.
The Pillars Of The Earth actor will portray Marius, a role that’s been played on stage by everyone from Michael Ball to, um, Jon from S Club 7. Les Miserables is set in the revolutionary France and revolves around Jean Valjean (Hugh Jackman), who must carry a yellow passport branding him as an ex-convict after being released from a 19-year prison sentence. Russell Crowe will be Inspector Javert, a policeman who keeps pursuing Jean Valjean, even though he is a free man. Anne Hathaway plays the female lead, Fantine.
Marius meanwhile is a student revolutionary who falls for Valjean’s adpoted daughter, Cosette.
Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech) is directing Les Miserables from a screenplay by William Nicholson. Production is expected to start fairly soon.
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Anne Hathaway Signs On For Les Mis
A few weeks ago we reported on rumours that Anne Hathaway was being sought for the movie version of Les Miserables at the request of Hugh Jackman, who’s onboard to play Jean Valjean. Now Deadline reports Hathaway has signed up for the movie, to portray Fantine.
Based on the Victor Hugo novel, Les Miserables centres on Jean Valjean, a prisoner who is on the run, with a dogged policeman named Javert (Russell Crowe) spending years tracking him down during the French Revolution. Fantine meanwhile is an unwed mother whose life has become dedicated to providing for her child, but whose situation gets ever worse as she tries to do just that, and whose story becomes intertwined with that of Valjean. She’s also the character who gets to sing I Dreamed A Dream,which of course was turned into a hit by Susan Boyle.
Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech) is directing Les Miserables from a screenplay by William Nicholson. Shooting is expected to start in the next few months, with Jackman making Les Mis before he goes to work on The Wolverine.
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