First Pictures: After counting Monte Cristo, this great hero of French literature returns to the cinema with a very beautiful actor

Get ready to see new adaptations of great French heritage novels! After the success of the three musketeers and especially after counting Monte Cristo, here is the return of Les Misérables to the cinema!

More than 10 years after its last adaptation on the big screen, this monument of French literature will be the subject of two separate projects. These two adaptations will have a different bias, which in any case has confirmed the strong return of large -scale adaptation of large French novels.

Jean Valjan, director Eric Bessard, has just shown his trailer. As we can see in these first pictures, the plot focuses on the origin of this character. The poster is also subtitles “the birth of an honest man.”

The plot begins in 1815. Jean Valjan (Gregori Gadovii) leaves the colony after nineteen -year -old forced labor. With anger, a sense of injustice and violence, it has become a dangerous animal that no longer trusts anything or anyone. One evening, after he was rejected many times, he found refuge with the priest.

Monseigneur Bienvenu (Bernard Campan) lives there with his sister (Isabel Karea) and a lonely servant (Alexandra Lam). Surprised by welcoming warmth, Jean Valjan was shaken by his criminal offenders. He will have to choose between the final actions that are inspired by the universe with its hatred and stretching by hand.

To determine the origin of one of the greatest characters in French literature, in the cinemas on November 19.

Another project that is adapted from Les Misérables

Another announced film is called Les Misérables, directed by Fred Kawai. Around Vincent Lindon’s lead role, we find Benjamin Laern in the role of Tenardier, Camila Kotin performs his wife, Tahar Rahim, the role of inspector Javerti, Nomi Merlant is a fantasy, Megan North is a costume. Marie Columbus and Seid El Alam are also part of the actors. Filming that started in July last July is taking place in Paris and Bordeaux. It applies for 17 weeks.

Fred Kawai has been visiting Vincent Lindon, Mea Culpa (2014) and Pour Elle (2008). The film will be released on December 9, 2026.

Return to great literary licenses

The announcement of these two projects is part of the trend that includes literary heritage, adapting to the classics of well -known public.

Published in 1862, Les miserables It has been adapted many times for film. One of the most famous transportation remains in 1958 with Jean Gabin. The latest dates of 2013 with Tom Hopper’s musical comedy adaptation, Hugh Jackman and Ann Hathua. The TV version produced in 2000 with Gerard Depardius also impressed.

Recall that the history of Les Misérables follows Jean Valjan’s character, a peasant who has been sentenced to five years for theft of bread bread. He left the fortress of Toulon in 1815, after the 19th year of time, his initial punishment continued for multiple attempts to escape.

His fate is changing when Digne’s bishop, Monsigneur Myriel, devotes himself to himself to prevent him from custody, which again occurred after the theft of his home. Since then, Jean Valjan will only try to do kindness around him to the detriment of his own happiness.