Les Mis Movie: Soon?

[coolphantom919]

Posted: 2/22/07 at 8:27am

In the documentary about the show, Stage By Stage, they said a film was in production! :) Is this true???



P.S. I HOPE SO!
Updated On: 2/22/07 at 08:27 AM

[HumATune]

Posted: 2/22/07 at 8:37am

I’ll let someone else who knows more address that, but IMO a Les Miz movie would never work. No mainstream audience is going to sit through sung-through musical. The show would have to be completely restructured, and that would probably ruin it for the musical fans.

[p.s.]

Posted: 2/22/07 at 9:15am

Is this old news from about 10 years ago?
I know that in Variety March 1997 (Les Miz 10th Anniversary issue) there was an ad like Watch for the upcoming movie .

p.s. I hope it is new news.

[RainbowHigh2]

Posted: 2/22/07 at 9:19am

I saw the show in 1990 and my Playbill had an ad saying the same thing, that a Les Mis movie would begin filming soon. The dramatic version with Liam Neeson and Claire Danes was released soon thereafter but not the musical. I doubt it would work - Phantom was gorgeous but very, very boring.

[Kringas]

Posted: 2/22/07 at 9:24am

You do realize Stage By Stage is almost twenty years old, right?

[RainbowHigh2]

Posted: 2/22/07 at 9:27am

So they were hyping the movie as soon as they opened, huh.

[Spacedog78]

Posted: 2/22/07 at 10:32am

coolphantom919

that documentary came out right when the show originally opened! I guess they are really taking there time making the movie then, must be the most expensive production EVER!

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 2/22/07 at 11:06am

In the documentary about the show, Stage By Stage, they said a film was in production! :) Is this true???

It was at the time...

[BobbyErikValjean]

Posted: 2/22/07 at 11:09am

Now this I could see. I really thought they would release a movie before the revival though.

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 2/22/07 at 11:11am

Whatever happened to Bruce Beresford, anyway?

http://tinyurl.com/2ke8j9

[CapnHook]

Posted: 2/22/07 at 11:24am

LES MISERABLES [LIMBO]
Written by Andrew Hartman
Friday, 09 February 2007


In February 2005, producer Cameron Mackintosh announced there was interest to turn the record-breaking musical into a feature film.

"In the last six to nine months there has been renewed interest in the idea of a film adaptation and several big players want to be involved. That doesn't necessarily mean we are going to hand the project over to a big name director. We want someone who has a vision for the show that will put the show's original team, including me, back to work. We don't just want an adaptation. We want a film audiences will find as fresh as the actual show."

[jv92]

Posted: 2/22/07 at 11:25am

The twenty year old documentary also probably said that Bob Fosse was at the helm of a film of Chicago with Madonna and Liza in the leads. It's very old, very dated news. Sorry.

[EponineThenardier]

Posted: 1/16/08 at 12:26am

My dream cast:

Director: Peter Jackson

Valjean: Russell Crowe
Javert: Kevin Kline
Fantine: Emily Blunt
Marius: James McAvoy
Cosette: An unknown
Eponine: An unknown
Enjolras: Not sure
Thenardier: Jim Broadbent
Madame T: Julie Walters

[Dancin Thru Life]

Posted: 1/16/08 at 7:05am

WTF????

[Brave Sir Robin2]

Posted: 1/16/08 at 10:13am

I like your cast, EponineThenardier

[BrianIdol]

Posted: 1/16/08 at 10:50am

Peter Jackson? EWWW!!!!! King Kong was HORRIBLE. I don't want to see a CGI Barricade.

[roquat]

Posted: 1/16/08 at 1:28pm

No Gavroche? How about Ed Sanders?

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 1/16/08 at 4:14pm

I think the reason that LES MIZ hasn't been made into a film is that its such a literal theatrical adaptation of the book that has been in turn been adapted into a movie countless times already.

What more are you going to do with it? You can't give it the Baz Luhrman / Julie Taymor treatment.

Pretty much all you have to do to imagine the movie version of the musical is rent any of the films and play the cast recording in the background...

That doesn't sound like a very exciting movie musical to me.

[philly03]

Posted: 1/16/08 at 4:49pm

Yeah I think Les Mis would have to be shortened anyway before a complete movie would be made.

But I've heard the same thing. They originally planned to release a movie version in 1992 (what Stage by Stage says, as well as brochures, and the book "The Complete Les Miserables"..all say a movie in 1992) probably becuase Andrew Lloyd Webber was doing the Phantom of the Opera movie in the early '90s, but his divorce with Sarah reportedly broke off movie hopes...until 2004 obviously. I think 2 or 3 pro-shots are on YouTube somewhere..well "Wishing You Were SomeHow here again" is. But as for the Les Mis movie, Cameron's unfortunately been saying since 1995 that there's a new interest in the movie, but nothing will come of it. I except Jekyll & Hyde before it! (Haha)

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 1/16/08 at 5:06pm

Are you talking about the music video for "Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again"?

[stupidmansuit]

Posted: 1/16/08 at 6:03pm

"I’ll let someone else who knows more address that, but IMO a Les Miz movie would never work. No mainstream audience is going to sit through sung-through musical. The show would have to be completely restructured, and that would probably ruin it for the musical fans."

I think Sweeney Todd proved that audiences will watch completely sung/nearly all sung musicals.
But I do agree that a film might not be necessary because it's such a literal/literary adaptation. But given the phenomenon it is and that they're making so many musicals (movies) these last few years, I'd say it's about time.

[AnnaK<3LMIP]

Posted: 1/16/08 at 6:07pm

Scarlett Johansson or Anne Hathaway might do well as a performer.

[Greekmusicalfan]

Posted: 1/16/08 at 6:16pm

" I think Sweeney Todd proved that audiences will watch completely sung/nearly all sung musicals."

Well, Sweeney really didn't set the Box Office on fire, did it ?

Though I'd love a Les Mis movie, I am not keeping my hopes up high...

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 1/16/08 at 6:22pm

Yeah, and Sweeeney Todd just managed to find a cinematic language where bursting into song was acceptable. And that language is Tim Burton.

[Scarywarhol]

Posted: 1/16/08 at 6:35pm

I think Tim Burton would never do a Les Miz movie.

And I can't really imagine it working under any director...