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August 10, 2010

Alas

I'm in Appalachia these days, in this blue strain of North Carolina mountains that's just about the most beautiful place I've ever been, and I awoke this morning to heartbreaking news. Apparently, the classic musical version of Les Miserables is being made into a film. I had plans - a pre-emptive strike, even, already in motion - that would have delivered me to the director's chair of the one big budget epic I'd love to helm, if only Hollywood could keep its hands off it for just a little bit longer. It's one old dream that's stuck in my throat, that I don't want to let go of. I would even set aside my insistence that it be adapted with the French book because the English lyrics are frequently so terrible! Maybe I'll be lucky and it'll get stuck in development hell.

Posted by David Lowery at August 10, 2010 8:57 PM