Taylor Swift and Eddie Redmayne discuss how bad their Les Misérables screen test went.

You mean to tell us Taylor Swift could have been singing "On My Own" all this time?

No, not that Les Misérables. Well, not quite. Paris is burning and the streets are overflowing with violence and class conflict, but this ain't 1789. Amazon Studios has debuted the trailer for the new film from director Ladj Ly (who also co-wrote, with Giordano Gederlini and Alexis Maneti), which recently beat out the competition to earn the slot as Frace's 2020 Oscar submission for the Best International Feature Film competition. The timely police thriller stars Damien Bonnard as Stéphane, a new officer in the Anti-Crime Squad in a sensitive district of the Paris projects, …

From award-winning screenwriter Andrew Davies, the latest dramatic adaptation of Les Misérables (airing on Masterpiece on PBS) is a six-part epic story that delves deep into the many layers of Victor Hugo’s classic story. Exploring the cat-and-mouse relationship between Jean Valjean (Dominic West) and Javert (David Oyelowo) with a modern relevancy in its powerful themes, plotting, and characterizations, it’s all set against the backdrop of France at a time of civil unrest. During this 1-on-1 interview with Collider, actor Dominic West talked about taking on such an epic story, which other …

While the return of Game of Thrones is taking all the attention these days, there is another 6-episode television adaption of a beloved novel you should be aware of. This week saw the release of the first episode of PBS Masterpiece’s Les Misérables miniseries.

You cannot hear the people sing in Andrew Davies’ adaptation of Victor Hugo’s classic novel Les Misérables, and that is just fine. The six-episode series, which aired on the BBC last year and is now premiering on PBS in the United States, is in turn a sumptuous and horrifying exploration of the lives of the French working class and poor that spans the decades of early the 1800s (notably between revolutions). If the title doesn’t tip you off, an opening scene of the corpses of horses and men strewn across the battlefield of Waterloo will. But …