"Les Miserables" to become a six-part TV miniseries thanks to the BBC and the Weinstein Compnay
Fans of "Les Miserables" who thought the Tom Hooper movie was too short are in luck. Just don't expect any singing.
The BBC and The Weinstein Co. are teaming up to turn Victor Hugo's classic tale about the beginning of hte French revolution into a six-part television miniseries. But the TV event will be straight from the novel, not the popular 1980s musical that was turned into a film in 2012.
This will be the Weinstein Co.'s second collaboration with the BBC following their similar adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's "War and Peace," starring Lily James and Paul Dano. The script will be written by Andrew Davies, who handled writing duties on "War and Peace" as well as "House of Cards" and the first two "Bridget Jones" movies.
The "Les Miserables" miniseries will debut on U.K. television first before airing in the U.S. and China.