I would cast Hugh Jackman as Jurgis and Anne Hathaway as Ona in a movie adaptation for Jurgis. My main reason? I’m a massive sucker for how they worked together in the film adaptation for Le Misérables but I wish they had more time with each other, so here we are. Obviously this would be more preferable if the actors themselves were younger, because “She was so young—not quite sixteen—and small for her age, a mere child; and she had just been married—and married to Jurgis”, and Jurgis himself isn’t over a decade past her, but ya know, let cgi be cgi. Anyway, Hugh Jackman seems like the perfect guy to play a hardworking strong man to be a hopeful provider and also the perfect guy to watch it all fall apart.

As in how to adapt it, I would like the movie to be as close to the source material as possible, but I don’t make movies for a living, so how should I know what works and what doesn’t.

Anyway, thanks for reading, sorry if it sucks.