Hugh Jackman Says He Will Star in 'Les Miz' Film

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Tony Award medalist Hugh Jackman will melodrama Jean Valjean in the membrane version of the international kick musical Les Miserables, he told a Toronto radio station.

Jackman, who will take the role of moral hero Jean Valjean, said the film of Les Miz, which has its roots in the London, Broadway and international hit produced by Cameron Mackintosh, will begin filming next annual, after he shoots "Wolverine 2" this fall. The decades-spanning drama is painted from the novel by Victor Hugo.

Hooper's film credit ahead the Best Picture-nominated "The King's Speech" was "The Damned United," almost an English football coach. He was also director of the acclaimed miniseries "John Adams."

Jackman's 90-minute Toronto agreement July 5-17 at the Princess of Wales Theatre will be a mingle of melodies, stories and video, he told CHFI radio.

Paul Bettany ("Priest," "Wimbledon") has been mentioned in reception reports to play Inspector Javert, who doggedly pursues the reformed burglar Valjean.

Tom Hooper, the Oscar-nominated mentor of "The King's Speech," is expected to straight the film. Given the socially turbulent early 19th-century duration in which the anecdote is set (fighting at the barricades, anybody?), the movie version produced by Working Title Films is to be a big-budget experience abundant with a great hurl. Universal will distribute. No casting has been officially announced.

The stage melodious is by Alain Boublil (writing), Claude-Michel Schnberg (writing and melody) and Herbert Kretzmer (lyrics). William Nicholson has been mentioned for screenwriter.

Jackman also said namely his profession high even now was starring as Peter Allen in Broadway's The Boy From Oz, because which he won the Tony Award as Best Actor in a Musical. Despite the wrong reviews for the show, he said it was an extraordinary experience for him. He added that he is most merry when he is on a stage in front of an spectators.

Jackman, who was penetrated on screen in "X-Men Origins: Wolverine," is also known for his film roles in the "X-Men" trilogy, "Someone Like You," "Swordfish," "Kate and Leopold," "Van Helsing" and the recent "The Fountain" and "Happy Feet" (in voice). His stage credits also comprise Trevor Nunn's staging of Oklahoma! at Britian's National Theatre and award-winning go in products of Sunset Boulevard and Beauty and the Beast in his matherland, Australia.

Talking by call to radio station 98.1 CHFI on June 27, in advance of the July 5 start of a concert vow at Toronto's Princess of Wales Theatre, Jackman (The Boy From Oz) said, "I do have a appetite to do a movie musical. Looks favor that's coming true for I'm gonna do Les Miserables, the movie version of it, next year. I'm excited. That's something I absence to bring my A-game for."

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