'Veronica Mars' creator developing modern 'Les Miserables' adaptation for Fox

By Tim Kenneally LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - "Veronica Mars" creator Rob Thomas is tackling Victor Hugo for Fox. Thomas is developing a contemporary take on Hugo's novel "Les Miserables," which has been given a script commitment with penalty by Fox. The one-hour drama project, which Thomas is executive producing with Danielle Stokdyk and Dan Etheridge, is billed as a primetime soap about a brilliant lawyer running a legal exoneration program who fights to evade the consequences of his own unjust conviction many years before. ...



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