![]() The musical motion picture finally gained traction in 2011 when The King's Speech's director, Tom Hooper, came on board. A motion picture interpretation of this lavish production has been in the works since the early 1990s but, as it churned in development hell, no less than three major non-musical adaptations of Les Miserables were made - Claude Lelouch's remarkable 1995 re-imagination, a major 1998 English-language version directed by Bille August and starring Liam Neeson and Geoffrey Rush, and a celebrated 2000 French mini-series featuring Gerard Depardieu and John Malkovich. But Victor Hugo's epic historical drama is perhaps best known for its musical version, which opened in the West End in 1985 and bowed on Broadway two years later. ![]() Les Miserables, believed by some to be the best novel ever penned in French, has been adapted in nearly every form imaginable, including dozens of movies, television mini-series in French and English, loose "thematic reworkings," and comic books. ![]()
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