A good story can spark a franchise, but a great story can be adapted again and again into countless forms. Les Misérables, for example, started as an 1862 epic wartime novel by Victor Hugo, but in the years since, it’s been adapted into movies, TV shows, comics, manga, radio plays, and stage plays. But probably the best known version of the vast story is the Broadway musical and its 2012 film adaptation.
Now, another oft-adapted work is getting the same treatment: a star-studded movie adaptation of a Broadway musical, and it’s being lauded as a return to form for the movie musical genre as a whole.
