Besides Hugh Jackman and Paul Bettany who else would you cast in Les Mis the movie? — Page 3

sorry to double post but someone suggested either Natalie Portman or Amy Adams as Fantine. They can still pass for young I think.
Amy has the purity that's so totally Fantine while Natalie has youth written on her face.

Hugh said again this week in a radio interview promoting his Toronto show that he was doing this and he was asked where it would be filmed and he said he thought it would be in London. He also said something like "they are sorting things out" so they are probably still working things out.

It was mentioned when the movie was first announced also that it would probably be filmed "somewhere in Europe" but just because it takes place in Paris doesn't mean it has to be filmed there. A lot of things come into play on filming locations.

Updated On: 7/9/11 at 09:17 AM

@fan2, any hint in the interview as to who Hugh might be playing? Thanks!

As for filming in London, maybe he meant they'll be doing *studio* filming in London? They'll probably have to do the outdoor filming on either backlot sets or in small European towns that haven't changed much.

OK, thanks! I hoped that since he just did the new interview this week that he might have some more details. Maybe he was told not to say anything else yet!

Hey, also on Twitter --

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Colm Wilkinson @RealHughJackman in Toronto! Legendary and future #lesmis stars!!! I hope they discussed and shared role ideas over a coffee

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I always thought Jason Isaacs would make an extraordinary Javert. Remember him in The Patriot? He was so deliciously Javert-like.

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I think LES MIZ is the star. It has been around long enough that even people who have no exposure to theatre have probably heard about this one- at least from Family Guy (which reminds me- why not Kirk Cameron as Jean Valjean). Stars could really take us out of the story. I would cast the best of the best from the stage. It's a sung-through musical so the voices have to be amazing!! That's partly why I'm not a fan of the Phantom movie. 2 hours of singing by people who don't sing doesn't make a lot of sense.

People forget about the debacle that PHANTOM OF THE OPERA and RENT turned out to be both in terms of the quality of the films as well as their box office. Both of them (especially RENT) were cast in such a way that the name was the star, and they ended being huge bombs. Casting the original cast in RENT was especially a big mistake given that they were all too old for their roles and only a couple of them could actually act on screen. Casting non-stars Emmy Rossum, Gerard Butler (he wasn't the name he is now at the time), and Patrick Wilson in PHANTOM was also a mistake, the movie didn't sell, Butler and Rossum had no chemistry, and Rossum proved to be completely bland on camera. So I don't understand why people keep insisting that the name LES MIZ alone will sell the film when there's clearly proof that this is simply not true.
They need to cast stars in this, there's at least two taped productions of LES MIZ with stage actors, watch those if you want to see them play the roles. A film is a completely different monster, you need actors who can act on screen and more importantly, can actually sell the movie. Hugh Jackman is exactly the direction in which they need to go. Add the likes of Melanie Laurent, Marion Cotillard, Helena Bonham Carter, Paul Bettany, Amy Adams, and Paul Giamatti and you have a great ensemble that would make the movie actually stand a chance.

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