Get Your First Look at the New ‘Les Miserables’ Cast
The BBC and Masterpiece recently dropped the first set of promo images for their upcoming, star-studded new adaptation of the classic Les Miserables, giving us our first look at three of the story’s iconic characters.
Dominic West will play the heroic Jean Valjean, with David Oyelowo as his nemesis Inspector Javert, and Lily Collins as the tragic Fantine. And, for what it’s worth, this trio of actors looks pretty amazing in character.
Victor Hugo’s epic novel will become a six-part series thanks to Andrew Davies, the man responsible for such period drama successes as Mr. Selfridge, War and Peace, Little Dorrit, Bleak House and that epic Pride and Prejudice adapatation that basically gave the world Colin Firth. Davies will, apparently, be basing this particularly Les Miserables adaptation much more closely on Hugo’s text, rather than the globally popular musical version of the story.
