He’ll be on our screens later this month in My Week With Marilyn, but Eddie Redmayne has scored an even higher profile role for his next film, landing the part of Marius in Tom Hooper’s take on** Les Miserables**.
Redmayne will star alongside Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe and Anne Hathaway in the tale of romance, revolution and tragedy adapted from the stage musical version of Victor Hugo’s novel.
Jackman is playing Jean Valjean, a man looking for redemption after years in prison who gets his chance when he becomes wealthy and tajes charge of caring for young Cosette, daughter of the troubled Fantine (Hathaway). Years later, Cosette meets Marius, a student at the heart of a rebellion against the cruel Parisian government, and falls in love. Valjean, meanwhile, is constantly being hunted by obssessed lawman Javert (Crowe).
Hooper is still looking for someone to play Cosette, though he does have Helena Bonham Carter as greedy innkeeper’s wife Madame Thenardier, and **King’s Speech **co-star Geoffrey Rush is rumoured as Thenardier himself.
With a script by William Nicholson, Hooper will start the cameras cranking in February.