I would make a great Eponine! It's kinda a dream. She's got great songs, the emotion.....

But, like I said, it's a dream. I'm content to sing along with the soundtrack.....


But really, who's gonna play Jean Valjean?

Michael Ball is interested.

Michael Ball as Valjean?

I'm just not feeling it. I mean for me it would be incredibly hard to picture Michael Ball as Valjean when all I can do is picture him as Marius.

How about Emmy Rossum for Eponine?

I don't think it would work.......because now she basically seen as Christine from Phantom. Another unknown would work though (of course, that's why I said, me!)

Linda Eder should somehow play a part in this........she's fabulous!

I hope it isn't Emmy Rossum. She had two expressions during Phantom, confused and more confused. Eponine needs a wide ranging of emotions. Plus, I don't like her voice and you need to know how to belt to play Eponine. Emmy couldn't doesn't have the belting voice.

So very true.....it's scary.

She's got that way to innocent look. No way she could be Eponine.

Eponine needs to be someone that looks like the really lived, someone that from the first note that you hear, sounds like raw emotion, from the gut. Someone you can't get out of your head. Emmy ain't go that.

[mini hijack]

on the flip side, we don't know if she "got it" or not. Emmy is a trained Opera singer. I'm sure the girl can belt. Belting really isn't called for in Phantom.

[end mini hijack]


Thoughts on Marius or Cosette?

Actually, though, she was in some Lifetime or ABC family movie I saw a few months ago, and she sang in it too. Same kind of timid singing....but she was playing the piano....that's cool.

I think they'll need to find a relative unknown, or even somebody from Broadway to play Eponine. As for Javert, how about Russell Crowe. If he's considered to play Sweeney, I think he will be able to play Javert. Plus, Crowe have that menacing look.

Yeah, but he might be too well-known. I always picture Javert as being, forgive me, not so good-looking......maybe that adds to the character or something. If he's a good-looking guy, don't you tend to like him a bit more?

I don't know.

They'll have to go after one or two big names just to get people in the seats. Look what happen to Phantom. They went for no names and got burned.

I do agree with you that Russell Crowe maybe too much of a pretty boy. Javert must be intimidating and menacing. If Christopher Walken can sing, he'll be perfect.

Oh, he's perfect! I just love to hate him---pretty much every character he's played (gosh, that sounded mean).

Jean Valjean and Inspector Javert's characters are going to have to be really strong though, to 'oppose' each other.

(thinking----I can see someone like Roseanne playing Madame Thenardier......)

Javert is a hard character to pull off. He's such a multi-layered character, he's an anti-hero. He sits directly opposite of Valjean, but you cannot hate him because of his loyalty to the law, no matter how twisted his loyalty is.

Roseanne? Remmember her singing ability during the national anthem? LOL

Just to see:
Jean Valjean
Javert
Fantine
Marius
Young Cossette
Young Eponine
Cossette
Eponine
Enjolras
Thenardier
Mme. Thenardier
Gavroche

I can sort of see Emily Rossum as Cosette. Many Cosettes have also played Christine.

Let's just hope that Katie Holmes isn't going to play Eponine...she didn't do the best job singing On My Own on Dawson...

I just don't want to see Emmy in this one---I'll be disappointed. But you know that they're looking at her for one of the parts. They'd be stupid not to.

What about Donald Sutherland for Javert? If he could sing---he would be good.

If you gave Katie a part in this movie, I guess you'd have to put Tom in it too........I mean, they are attached at the hip. And Tom isn't that great.....we heard him sing in Top Gun, and he changed keys in that acappella number 2 or 3 times.........

Yikes.