Originally Posted by
JBDuke
The story of "Les Miserables" is a relatively good one, but it's long and depressing. As a novel, it's a slog, and any movie version of that story is going to have to edit the material heavily and is still going to be a downer. Not exactly a formula for great box office success. What makes the musical version so amazing isn't the book, it's the music. So if the movie can take the story and the setting and portray those with the superior abilities of film to bring those to the audience and can do so with sufficiently compelling musical performances that do justice to the songs, then I think you've got a potential hit movie musical. I'm excited about what I know of the cast, so here's hoping they can pull it off.