14th December 2011Film Production News - Sasha Baron Cohen Cast In Le Miserables Adaption
Film production projects are sprouting up as often as law-suits for Borat star Sacha Baron Cohen. He is in final negotiations to appear alongside Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe in the movie of the Les Miserables musical. Broadway actor Aaron Tveit has just been cast as Enjolras, the heroic lead.
Baron Cohen will play the role of scheming innkeeper M. Thenardier who, with his baleful wife Madame Thenardier, causes much harm to the hero Jean Valjean and those closest to him.
However painful they are, the Thenardiers have the show’s funniest numbers such as Master Of The House and Dog Eats Dog. The decrepit couple ill-treat children in their care and serve patrons sausages made of horse innards, cat liver and pigswill. Worst of all, they water the wine.
Helena Bonham Carter is also in discussions to play Madame Thenardier, although no deal has yet been done.
Baron Cohen and Bonham Carter last sang on screen in Tim Burton’s Sweeney Todd.
A lot of the negotiations with the film studios are to do with scheduling because Baron Cohen is now working on Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained, having just finished The Dictator.
Filming on Le Miserables is due to start on locations in London in March, and until then, fans can console themselves with the wealth of Borat material from his underappreciated early Channel 4 show…
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