In 2011, producer Cameron Mackintosh sold the film rights to Eric Fellner, who financed the film with Tim Bevan through their production company Working Title Films. The story reaches resolution against the background of the June Rebellion of 1832.įollowing the release of the 1980 musical, a film adaptation was mired in " development hell" for over ten years, as the rights were passed on to several major studios, and various directors and actors considered. Set in France during the early nineteenth century, the film tells the story of Jean Valjean who, while being hunted for decades by the ruthless policeman Javert after breaking parole, agrees to care for a factory worker's daughter. The film stars an ensemble cast led by Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Eddie Redmayne, Amanda Seyfried, Helena Bonham Carter, and Sacha Baron Cohen. The film is a British-American venture distributed by Universal Pictures. The film is based on Kretzmer's 1985 West End English translation of the 1980 French musical by Boublil and Schönberg, which itself is adapted from the 1862 French novel of the same name by Victor Hugo. It’s a seminal thriller, set between the year of Waterloo and the failed revolution of 1832, and the incident-packed narrative is interrupted by essays on history, architecture, Parisian sewers, religion.Les Misérables is a 2012 epic period musical film directed by Tom Hooper from a screenplay by William Nicholson, Alain Boublil, who wrote the original French lyrics, Claude-Michel Schönberg, who wrote the music, and Herbert Kretzmer, who wrote the English lyrics. Les Misérables is an uplifting, heartbreaking, sentimental 1,500-page assault on oppression, exploitation and cruelty in which the ex-convict Jean Valjean, the Christ-like victim eternally seeking redemption, is pursued from Toulon to Paris by the implacable upholder of the law, Inspector Javert. Asked who was the greatest of all French poets, he replied: “Victor Hugo, hélas!” Always known by its original French title, the book appears high on lists of the 10 longest novels but never on the 10 best, and the most famous judgment on Hugo is that of André Gide. F irst published in 1862 to a mixed reception, Victor Hugo’s massive Les Misérables – a rousing example of the expansive Victorian novels Henry James dubbed “large loose baggy monsters” – has enjoyed a continuing popular success and been filmed several dozen times since 1897.
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