Exclusive: Lee Daniels Looking To Tackle Miss Saigon

Having directed Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire , one of the most buzzed about movies on the festival circuit this year, the world is clearly Lee Daniels' oyster even before the movie has received its theatrical release and he's already thinking about what to tackle next with two specific projects in mind.

The one that's likely to get the most immediate interest (if it happens) is Daniels' thoughts about directing a movie based on the hit musical Miss Saigon . Written by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, the musical set in Southeast Asia premiered in London's West End before opening on Broadway where it would run for ten years and 4,062 performances, making it the tenth-longest running musical in Broadway history. (It also won three Tony awards.)...