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| xxstagekiss |
"French Court Allows 'Les Miserables' Sequel"I had a slight panic-attack when I read the headline, thinking they were referring to a sequel to the musical.http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081219/stage_nm/us_books_miserables That was scary. 
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| Eponine_Th�nardier_08 |
I thought it was going to be a musical to. I almost cried and was thinking about throwing my computer........  hehe THANK GOD.
Still a sequel to the book....ehhh don't like the sound of that. |
| Disney-Bway27 |
Oh god that crappy Cosette book. It was slammed...or am I thinking of another book?
Either way, sequels in general are bad ideas. Unless they're part of a series. Les Miserables, like Phantom, has a pretty conclusive ending...there's absolutely no need for a sequel. Now, Wicked: Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (not the musical!), I can sort of understand, but Les Mis? Gah. Sequels AT LEAST should be written by the same author as the predecessor...since Mr. Hugo is no longer alive, that's obviously impossible. Therefore, Les Mis sequel =/= A Good Idea. 
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| CabaretGirl |
Why, why, WHY do they keep doing stuff like that?!?
(That said, Susan Kay's Phantom was a pretty good book, so maybe, just maybe, there's hope for a good Les Miz sequel...) |
| lesmisloony |
Well, the French courts obviously never had to read either "Cosette"...
And no, Susan Kay's Phantom was complete crap compared to the original book. She shredded characterisations and completely ignored established events in the story Leroux laid down. It's on the exact same level as Kalpakian and whoever wrote the French "Cosette" sequel. |
| kozafluitmusique |
Ugh....why?????? |
| bigR |
Oh, my God Hugo's descendants must have only inherited the part of his brain that wrote that chapter about the sewers and reusing human excrement.
For how long do they want to be entitled to control Hugo's work? The characters from Les Mis are not theirs, and they don't have more rights to be offended about anything we do with them than any of us. And even less to get any money at all from Hugo's work, which is probably what they wanted. They should had been forced to pay far more than 10.000 euros "An offense against the moral rights of Victor Hugo"? "Mr Ceresa's works completely twist the original"? ha, ha, ha, ha... if they really think that the Cosette books make Hugo spin in his grave, someone should send these people a complete collection of the "E/R are doing it in the back room of Musain" fics you can read online. |
| nabla |
I'd have thought the original tied everything up pretty well.... |
| Artemis Entreri |
My.
Those "Cosette" thing shall to be burnt! And not like I think book burning is good, but in this case, yes. Has anyone read the Pont-au-Change series here? I've heard that's the only "sequel" what doesn't suck, but I'm afraid of sequels. How is it? |
| bigR |
I don't care if they suck or not. Nobody is forced to buy/read them.
Hugo's grand grand grand children pretense that they might have a right to control Les Mis�rables characters was laughable. |
| Orestes Fasting |
There were actually two sequels called "Cosette" written, one the horrid trash by Laura Kalpakian, one by Francois Ceresa. The Ceresa book was the one at the center of the lawsuit. Just in case people were getting them mixed up. |
| Disney-Bway27 |
^ Thanks for clearing that up. I believe my theatre teacher was unfortunate enough to read Kalpakian's "Cosette" and she SLAMMED it in front of our class. Quite fun. |
| What you own |
I think I sent a link to one of the "Cosette" books on the whats changes would you make to the muiscal post. |
| step_together_step_touch |
When we did Forbidden Broadway, our director gave us good show gifts. The girl portraying Cosette got that book by Kalpakian. I decided to read a few little excerpts from the book. WTF mate!? |
| music is my life!!! |
omg i was going dizzy over the title of this 
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