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Anne Hathaway has already proven herself to be more than a capable singer by performing a duet with Hugh Jackman at the Academy Awards a few years ago, now she is set to do it all over again as she has signed on to join Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe for Universal Pictures’ Les Misérables. This will be the first time that The Dark Knight Rises star will sing in a full on musical. Anne Hathaway’s involvement has been speculated for quite some time.

Based on the Victor Hugo novel and stageplay of the same name, Anne Hathaway will play the role of Fantine opposite Crowe’s Inspector Javert and Jackman’s Jean Valjean. Helena Bonham Carter will also star, but there are other roles to fulfill. Roles such as Thenardier and Eponine and Cosette. William Nicholson wrote the script and the music is by Claude-Michel Schonberg and Alain Boublil.

Anne Hathaway cast in Tom Hooper‘s Les Miserables with Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe. Anne Hathaway joining Les Miserables (2012) with Russell Crowe and Hugh Jackman puts to rest who will be playing the central characters in the film. Anne Hathaway will be playing the role of Fantine, Russell Crowe will play Inspector Javert, and Hugh Jackman will play Jean Valjean. Helena Bonham Carter will be playing Madame Thénardier and supposedly Geoffrey Rush is in talks to play Thénardier.

What producer Cameron Mackintosh said about the casting:

“I’d been hoping we could make a film on Les MISÉRABLES ever since it opened on Broadway…I’ve got a marvelous cast so far with Hugh Jackman as Jean Valjean, Russell Crowe as Javert and Anne Hathaway as Fantine,” producer Cameron Mackintosh told BBC Radio today. “We’re busy casting the rest of the parts.”

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Les Misérables aka Les Mis, one of the most famous musicals worldwide, based on the novel Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, will star Russell Crowe as Inspector Javert playing opposite Hugh Jackman‘s Jean Valjean. Of course, you don’t need to show your face at the theater because Universal has set Tom Hooper’s adaptation of Les [...]

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Hugh Jackman has reportedly entered talks for the lead role in a big-screen adaptation of Les Misérables. The movie version of the Victor Hugo novel will be directed by Tom Hooper, who won an Oscar for The King's Speech earlier this year. X-Men and Australia actor Jackman will play protagonist Jean Valjean if a deal is completed, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The Da Vinci Code actor Paul Bettany is in the frame to play police inspector Javert, according to Deadline. Cameron Mackintosh, who adapted the original French musical version of Les Misérables for the West End, will produce the movie alongside (more)...

Producer Cameron Mackintosh is already in talks with British opera tenor Alfie Boe for the lead role of Jean Valjean in musical adaptation of Victor Hugo‘s Les Misérables.

Tom Hooper, who won a best director Oscar for The King’s Speech, is in the final negotiations to deal with Working Title and Cameron Mackintosh to direct the picture.

The main leads are Jean Valjean, the brave ex-prisoner, and Inspector Javert, his persistent pursuer. Mackintosh wants the opera tenor Alfie Boe to screen-test for Valjean since Boe played Valjean at the 25th-anniversary Les Miserables concert when the sentiment of a singer’s voice matched the character he was playing. That’s the rank of quality needed for the film by Mackintosh opinion.

If producers cast famous tenor they must follow that step by casting major names to play the other characters such as Javert; the thieving Thenardiers; Marius; Cosette; and Fantine.

A Plethora Of Names Being Considered For Film Including Robert Downey Jr., Anne Hathaway & Marion Cotillard Even though director Tom Hooper isn't yet totally committed to directing the film adaptation of Victor Hugo's iconic musical "Les Misérables," it seems like the producers are already eyeing talent for the potential project. The Daily Mail's Baz Bambigoye reports that not only is Hooper imminently set to conclude negotiations and begin scripting with Bill Nicholson but that producer Cameron Mackintosh is already championing British opera tenor Alfie Boe for the lead role of Jean Valjean, the heroic ex-convict protagonist whose road to…...

Oscar-winner Tom Hooper is officially in talks to film his follow-up to The King’s Speech. A spokesperson for the British director confirmed a Deadline report that he’s in negotiations to bring a musical adaptation of Les Misérables to the screen for Universal. The 1985 musical, based on Victor Hugo’s 1862 novel, is one of the most successful theatrical productions of all time.

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The movie rumour mill reports that he actually turned down Iron Man 3, now probably being helmed by Lethal Weapon writer Shane Black.

Les Misérables has been a long-running London West End and Broadway Musical favourite for many years as well as on Broadway (currently the third longest-running musical), and has been the subject of a potential movie adaptation on many occasions. Alan Parker was thought to be attached to the project in the late 1980s, and in the early 1990s a Tri-Star adaptation with Bruce Beresford at the helm seemed to be in the works. The motion picture adaptation of Victor Hugo's epic of early 19th-century rural France was even promised at the end of the DVD of...

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Confirming the news previously posted on BroadwayWorld, Cameron Mackintosh has formally announced that his hugely acclaimed new 25th anniversary production of the World's Longest-Running Musical, Les Misérables, will tour North America beginning in fall 2010, visiting many cities on a multi-year tour. The production will feature new staging and reimagined scenery inspired by the paintings of Victor Hugo and will make its United States premiere this November at the iconic Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, NJ for a multi-week engagement.

Screened at the Toronto International Film Festival

TORONTO -- A low-key crime thriller navigating the path to moral redemption taken by an ethically challenged lawyer, Return to Sender marks a return to form for Pelle the Conqueror director Bille August, whose more recent films, including Smilla's Sense of Snow and the 1998 version of Les Miserables had problems finding their center.

While very deliberately paced, the picture re mains compelling courtesy of a script by Neal Purvis and Robert Wade that, for the most part, chooses not to connect the usual dots -- as well as nicely modulated performances by Aidan Quinn and Connie Nielsen.

It may lack the commercial drive of a John Grisham vehicle, but Return to Sender could still carve out a modest theatrical niche with the right distributor.

Quinn has landed one of his more complex roles as Frank Nitzche, a defense lawyer on a serious losing streak. He's lost his last three capital cases, with his last client going to the electric chair.

Broke and cynical, he has started up a lucrative little side business by corresponding with death row convicts and selling their letters to the highest bidders.

But when his biggest score yet -- a woman (Nielsen) awaiting execution after being found guilty in the kidnap and murder of a young child -- has stopped writing to him, Nitzche heads to Oklahoma to pay her a jail visit.

At first, their encounters have a predictable cat-and-mouse dynamic, but soon something deeper and more interesting develops between them, leading to a major crisis of conscience for Frank as he begins to question her guilty verdict.

August runs a tightly controlled ship here, if perhaps a little too controlled, especially during the film's expositional first half-hour, which occasionally takes on the visual equivalent of a Southern drawl.

Once the story clicks into gear, however, the level of involvement remains relatively high.

The subtle mood shifts give Quinn and Nielsen plenty to play with, while Kelly Preston, as the lawyer fighting a losing battle to exonerate her client, Sara-Marie Maltha, as Nielsen's blind sister, and Timothy Daly, as Maltha's sight-impaired husband, round out the well-chosen cast.

Return to Sender

Intandem Films

Credits:

Director: Bille August

Producer: Michael Lunderskov

Executive producers: Gary Smith, Paul White, Michael H. Laursen, Peter H. Laursen, Andrew Brown

Screenwriters: Neal Purvis & Robert Wade

Director of photography: Dirk Bruel

Production designer: Viggo Bentzon

Editor: John Scott

Music: Harry Gregson-Williams

Cast:

Charlotte Cory: Connie Nielsen

Frank Nitzche: Aidan Quinn

Susan Kennan: Kelly Preston

Martin North: Timothy Daly

Stella: Sara-Marie Maltha

MPAA Rating: Not yet rated

Running time -- 103 minutes...