The long wait is finally over; United International Pictures through Solar Entertainment Corporation will be releasing Les Miserables in all theaters nationwide beginning January 16, 2013. This motion-picture adaptation of the beloved global stage sensation that is celebrating its 27th year was directed by Tom Hooper in cooperation with Cameron Mackintosh. Les Miserables stars Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Amanda Seyfried, Eddie Redmayne, Aaron Tveit, Samantha Barks, with Helena Bonham Carter and Sacha Baron Cohen.
The musical film was set for international released on December 25, 2012 but moved in the Philippines to give way to the annual Metro Manila Film Festival. Les Miserables was set in the 19th-century France, in times of repression and war. It tells the enthralling story of broken dreams and unrequited love, passion, sacrifice and redemption hoping to gain survival of the human spirit. It also includes the character of the ex-prisoner named Jean Valjean (Jackman) wanting to have a new life but after breaking his parole he was haunted by a ruthless policeman named Javert (Crowe). It was not easy for Jean Valjean and it became more complicated after he agreed to take care of the factory worker Fantine’s (Hathaway) child named Cosette which was played by Seyfried in the later part of the story.
Here are some of the posters that was released for the promotion of Les Miserables:
Les Miserables was based from the French historical novel by Victor Hugo, first published in 1862 and later translated in the 19th century and have numerous titles including The Miserable, The Wretched, The Poor Ones, The Wretched Poor, or The Victims in the English translation. Later it was adapted to theater as a musical with music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, original French lyrics by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel, with an English-language libretto by Herbert Kretzmer. It was awarded with Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Book and Best Score in 1987. Les Miserables is known by its trademark of a young child in tattered dress and broomstick which in the story it was the young Cosette.
