Anna Kendrick And Les Miserables' Daniel Huttlestone In Talks For Disney's Into The Woods

If I had to pick any actor from Les Miserables to play Jack in Into the Woods, it would've probably been Eddie Redmayne. He seems to have the right look for how I picture the character, and he has the perfect voice to belt out the ecstatic "Giants in the Sky." Alas, it isn't Redmayne who will be playing the role, though it is a Les Miserables actor in contention for the part. The scene-stealing Daniel Huttlestone, who played Gavroche in the film, is in talks for the role of Jack in Rob Marshall's feature adaptation of Into the Woods. Another familiar face in negotiations to join the film is Anna Kendrick, who will play Cinderella.


Based on the musical from Steven Sondheim (music and lyrics) and James Lapine (book) - which is said to be inspired by Bruno Bettelheim's The Uses of Enchantment - Into the Woods merges fairytales as it tells the story of a baker and his wife who set out to lift a curse that's keeping them from being able to have children. They're not the only ones with struggles that send them into the woods to seek out assistance. For Jack, it's his cow, who won't give milk. His mother sends him off to the market to sell the cow, only he ends up trading it for some supposedly magic beans. And, well, you might have a general idea of where his story is headed. Spoiler alert: Up.

Deadline reports that Huttlestone is in negotiations to star as Jack in the Disney adaptation of Into the Woods. Not yet fourteen, Huttlestone seems a bit on the young side to play the role, however, given his fantastic performance in Les Mis, it's hard to complain about this news