Brother Marvin Hinten, S.
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What would you want in a film of Les Mis?I ask this question because I've begun an endeavor, an endeavor that I will probably soon regret undertaking once I receive an avalanche of responses. I am attempting to write a fan effort at a screenplay based on the musical.
Now tell me...what would you want in a film of the musical?
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Lord Moe
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Colm Wilkinson
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christinadaae
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No stunt casting.
Real people.
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AndrewShatterhand
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I've written two drafts already of a Les Miserables film adaption (I'm planning on working on a third in a few weeks) just for fun. It's quite a piece of work but it's quite interesting and can be a lot of fun (and frustrating as well).
Best of luck.
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pish123c
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Rosie O Donell as Fantine
thats all im gunna say
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Quique
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I have my own idea of how it should be filmed. I've thought about it a billion times. It would be a triumph! 
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Jemibub
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a lot of people, surpisingly, want to be THE sreenwriter to immortalize Les Mis on film. I guess four of them are now on this forum. lol 
I have a rough draft of what I would put on the screen (I recently got FINAL DRAFT 7, a program for script-writing; and, I am going scene by scene putting my rough draft in script format and adding more background details and details in general.
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Lazarus (Adam G)
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Strippers.
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Brother Marvin Hinten, S.
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| Jemibub wrote: | | a lot of people, surprisingly, want to be THE screenwriter to immortalize Les Mis on film. I guess four of them are now on this forum. lol |
Well, that's a good thing. Those four of us who have our ideas...everyone send each other PM's, let's exchange screen names and look at each other's ideas, and have a conference, and hammer out a compromise screenplay for our fellow Les Mis fans, eh? We can still each have our own individual work, certainly, but we'll also have a group screenplay to showcase the best of our ideas.
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Jemibub
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I would love to do that if I hadn't gone through the hell of collaboration in a screenplay writing class last year; I have doubts of ever going through that again. ((let's just say that there was three people in a group, all had creative differences; and, when everyone came to an agreement, one person left. kept going on like that till we we writing seperate screenplays))
Though, I don't think a collaboration of the musical could take place because of creative differences. ((the basic choreography of the show, background, etc is pretty much written in stone that everyone would pretty much have the same ideas for the script))
Maybe if we all worked together to create a modern version of Les Miserables, creative differences would come in handy. ((the lyrics of Les Mis could very much work, with little changing, in a modern adaption; the one thing that would change is the 19 years for a loaf of bread. lol))
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Brother Marvin Hinten, S.
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No kidding, more like 19 years for a baggie of crack, and then Valjean would turn into the "junkie gone good" stereotype.
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Jemibub
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lol, yeah, but I was thinking more along the lines that he DOES steal a loaf of bread but somehow it causes an electrical fire. Convicted of stealing an arsen --- Rock flies through window, Valjean takes the bread sitting in the display not know the rock hit a lamp. Lol
and what Lazarus (Adam G) suggested ... strippers. Fantine, after being thrown out of her job goes to become a stripper lol.
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Crapgame13
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Lea Salonga...fifteen years ago
either that or animated, so that you could get people who could emote in song.
I assume we're talking about the musical and not the source text
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