Eddie Redmayne Joins Les Miserables Movie

>>>EXCLUSIVE: Hot off My Week With Marilyn, Eddie Redmayne has been set to play the role of Marius in Les Miserables, the Tom Hooper-directed musical for Universal Pictures that stars Hugh Jackman as Jean Valjean, Russell Crowe as Inspector Javert and Anne Hathaway as Fantine. Universal has set the Working Title-produced musical for release in the center of next year’s Oscar race with a December 7, 2012 date. Cameron Mackintosh is producing with Working Title’s Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Debra Hayward. William Nicholson wrote the script and the music is by Claude-Michel Schonberg and Alain Boublil.

Redmayne, whose starring role opposite Michelle Williams in My Week With Marilyn has put him in the Oscar discussion, won a Tony Award for Red and he is preparing to star in Richard II, which is Michael Grandage’s farewell production as artistic director of Donmar Warehouse. Redmayne, who also recently wrapped the Derick Martini-directed Hick alongside Chloe Moretz and Blake Lively, is repped by CAA, manager Gene Parseghian and United Agents in the UK.<<
Eddie Redmayne Joins Les Mis

I was just coming to post this. I was beat to the punch.

Don't forget aasjb4ever, he doesn't have to be ginger in the movie.

Can he even sing?

I've never heard of him, and from the brief biographies I've found, he's an actor and a model but doesn't seem to have *any* singing experience at all. Or does he?

He's a good actor. At least he was in Elizabeth: The Golden Age and The Other Boleyn Girl.

He's just way too "Norman Bates" for me.

And he'll be 30 in January. I thought they'd go younger for Marius.

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Updated On: 11/1/11 at 02:24 PM

Creeeeeeepy ...

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Better?



Sure, you can catch him at a good angle in still photos, but have you seen him in movies? He looks more like these shots.

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Here's a Q&A at Broadway.com when he won his Tony Award.

Tony Interview

Not complaining about anything. He and Lucy Hale will be an awesome pair.

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It's really left-field casting and he was never on my radar for this role but I love it. He's an incredibly talented actor, looks much younger than his age and presumably, if he's got the role, then he can sing, he certainly has a wonderful speaking voice (can;t wait to see him in Richard II at the Donmar). I don't think for a second in this day and age they would even consider casting someone who couldn't sing, I mean pulling a Marni Nixon nowadays just wouldn't wash with the public, surely the'd feel like they were being cheated.

Count me in the glad for the unconventional choice route. The casting was starting to feel a little Hollywood glam.

No, it's not a better picture of him. They're both horrible. But he's a good looking guy and fit the romantic lead very well in Pillars of the Earth opposite Hailey Atwell.

What an odd choice. The casting of him and Helena Bonham Carter are starting to deflate my enthusiasm for this film. But I'll try and keep an open mind and hope I'll be pleasantly surprised.

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Updated On: 11/1/11 at 03:45 PM

"Not complaining about anything. He and Lucy Hale will be an awesome pair."

Do we have any confirmation that Hale will be doing the film?