With how standard variations of musicals have gotten over time and Hollywood loving itself some fashionable reboots which are additionally contemporary retellings, we have been sure to get a brand new tackle Phantom of the Opera. It’s been lengthy sufficient for the reason that 2004 model with Gerard Butler and Emmy Rossum that it virtually feels overdue.
No shock, then, that there’s a gift day tackle Gaston Leroux’s 1909 and 1910 novel and Andrew Lloyd Weber’s 1986 musical within the works. Ssuggest titled Phantom, this new model will come courtesy of producers Harvey Mason Jr. and singer-songwriter John Legend. Rather than being set in Paris, the brand new Phantom will happen in New Orleans, which makes some sense for the reason that French Quarter and all that. It comes from a spec script by John Fusco, who’s each a screenwriter (he created the short-lived Netflix collection Marco Polo).
“I have long wanted to explore The Phantom of the Opera in a contemporary and new way and in a French Quarter setting,” mentioned Fusco. Because of the town’s heavy creole and voodoo cultures, plus the theatricality of Mardi Gras, it is smart to him to set an adaptation of Phantom there. Probably doesn’t harm that Fusco’s additionally an completed blues musician for the reason that late Nineteen Seventies, having beforehand collaborated with artists like Steve Vai, Ry Cooder, and blues harp legend Sonny Terry.
Who is aware of if Phantom will really be good—film musicals lately fluctuate wildly in high quality, starting from In the Heights and Encanto to Les Mis and…regardless of the hell occurred with Dear Evan Hansen—however on the very least, it’ll be fascinating with the brand new setting and time interval. Given what else Universal’s planning for his or her varied horror characters, typically that’s sufficient of a gimmick to make a film work.
[by way of The Hollywood Reporter]
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