Merrick here...
THIS piece at Deadline says that the awesome Tom Hooper - who helmed the staggeringly good JOHN ADAMS miniseries and so competently turned THE KING'S SPEECH into a picture that was far more magnificent than it could've been (he won an Oscar for it) - looks to be zeroing in on his next project.
The dealmaking has started for Hooper to direct Les Miserables, a full-blown musical adaptation of the Cameron Mackintosh-produced perennial stage hit. This is the first film he's begun negotiations on since winning the Oscar, but insiders in Hooper's camp stopped short of saying it would definitively be his next film. I hear that's how it will work out.
I'm not the world's biggest fan of the musical - I don't hate it, but I've yet to encounter a version that didn't bore me a bit. This said, Hopper's unique aesthetic - paired with his unerring since of detail and character - could, at the very least, turn a LES MIS film into a potent cinematic experience.
Very interested to see how this develops...
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