Les Misérables: Fred Cavayé attacks Victor Hugo
After Alexandre Dumas and his musketeers, Victor Hugo and his Miserables will soon have the right to a new French Dante adaptation. In fact, we learn through Daily screenthat director Fred Cavayé (The game, Goodbye Mr. Hoffmann) will begin filming this new film at the end of 2024.
Studiocanal will distribute the film in French cinemas. At the moment there is no information on casting yet, but we can expect some big names to be lined uplike the XXL fusion of the diptych The Three Musketeersor even the highly anticipated Count of Monte Cristo.
According to the first information revealed by Fred Cavayé, the latter would like to make a film that “makes you want to go to the cinema” and wants to explore aspects of Victor Hugo’s book that “so far have never been adapted to the screen”. He wants to particularly highlight the female characters in the plot, starting with Fantine, Cosette or Eponine.
There seems to be a tradition of the book getting a film adaptation every 30 years or so, so it’s the perfect time to tell the story with the stars of our time. The story’s themes are timeless and universal and resonate with the social issues that define current events in France and elsewhere today.
Said the director, specifying that this new film Unfortunate It wouldn’t be a musical.
Many adaptations
Victor Hugo’s “Les Miserables” is one of the most iconic and influential French literary works, first published in 1862. This monumental novel, considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century, addresses themes of justice, faith, poverty and struggle between good and evil through the intersecting destinies of his characters in post-revolutionary France. Through the journey of Jean Valjean, an ex-convict haunted by his pastthe author explores redemption, love and sacrifice, offering a social criticism of his time.
The universal reach of the work has inspired numerous film and television adaptations. Among the most famous we can mention those by Richard Boleslawski (1935), Jean-Paul Le Chanois (1958) with Jean Gabin, Bille August with Liam Neeson, or even Tom Hooper’s musical comedy released in 2012 with Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway. On television we remember the one from 2000 with Gérard Depardieu in the role of Jean Valjean, and John Malkovich in the role of Javert. In 2018, the BBC tackled Victor Hugo’s novel with a miniseries starring Dominic West, David Oyelowo and Lily Collins.
Source: Cine Serie
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