The BBC is to make a six-part adaptation of Les Misérables with the team behind War and Peace, including producer Harvey Weinstein and screenwriter Andrew Davies.
I’m thrilled to be reunited with Faith Penhale and Simon Vaughan, my partners from War and Peace, with Charlotte Moore from the BBC, and of course, with Andrew Davies who wrote War and Peace.
The three partners previously worked together on Davies’ adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace, which aired on BBC1 earlier this year.
Weinstein described Les Misérables as “one of the greatest novels of all time” with “contemporary relevance to what’s going on in the world today.”