If I had to guess, the non-names will all have amazing voices. The guy that cast as Enjolras, Aaron Tveit, is one of my favorite Broadway/Off-Broadway actors of the last several years. He was a main character in Next to Normal for a long time. And the Eponine girl, Samantha Barks, is apparently most known for her voice, from some British reality show. Eddie Redmayne, on the other hand, looks like a big British theater star with limited musical experience. Interesting choice.
It will be interesting to see.
In other news, The Avengers is almost certainly going to be the third highest grossing movie in the US AND the world by the end of this weekend, and around the 35th highest grossing in the US ever when adjusted for inflation, pulling ahead of Spider-Man.
And the Eponine girl, Samantha Barks, is apparently most known for her voice, from some British reality show.
In case anyone's wondering if she can carry the role of Eponine, here she is singing On My Own from the Les Mis 25th Anniversary concert: [link]
I'm sufficiently excited about Les Mis that I just downloaded the 10th anniversary cast album from Amazon. Colm Wilkinson! Woot!
As for the new Bourne movie, I admit that while it looks really cool, it also looks like a retread of the first movie in a lot of ways... But at least they're recognizing that Matt Damon played Jason, and not trying to hide that he's not in it.
I forget now: how did the 3rd movie end? He exposes them and walks away, doesn't he?
I came to the Bourne movies via the books, and ended up preferring the books. So the whole "remember when we said we had the ultimate assassin? It got ultimatier." And for some reason I find that irritating. It's like suddenly changing the metrics you were asking us to calibrate by.
And, seriously, can they not make a super-soldier-spy that doesn't turn against them? Have they not figured out they're doing something wrong?
I'm assuming that if they did have some badasses under their wing, they'd send them after Bourne and whoever Renner is playing. But unless I've blanked, Treadstone isn't sending out a horde of highly trained spies after their targets.
Other agents tried to kill Bourne all through the first and second movies, at least. He just killed them first.
But unless I've blanked, Treadstone isn't sending out a horde of highly trained spies after their targets.
Oh, they do, though. In the first movie Matt Damon takes out... damn. British actor of great hotness. Memfault. (I blame the shot of scotch my friend P gave me last night, which was a 17-year Pulteney, so excellent.)
Thanks, Sean. I knew there was a C in there somewhere...
