Coming from bloody well right to sacré bleu: That’s the trajectory for Tom Hooper, the actual Oscar -winning director of the Oscar-winning ‘The King’s Speech,’ who is now seriously throughout talks with Universal for you to direct their big-screen adaptation with the musical ‘Les Miserables.’

The project is being put together by Functioning Title partners Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner along with Cameron Mackintosh, who made the perennial stage strike that opened in London in 1985. The film may start production before year’s result in Europe. William Nicholson (‘Elizabeth: The Golden Age,’ ‘Gladiator’) wrote the particular script.

According to Deadline, Hooper was being courted for a number of projects, including The Weinstein Co.’s ‘Tulip Fever’ as well as an adaptation regarding ‘Macbeth,’ but he’s not far from choosing ‘Mis’ – which should appeal to some top talent — while his next outing.

In line with the 1862 Victor Hugo novel, the story uses ex-con Jean Valjean as he tries to outrun his relentless pursuer Javert.

There have been some dozen or so big-screen versions of ‘Les Miserables’; the last would be a disappointing 1998 opus with Liam Neeson, Geoffrey Run and Uma Thurman.