![]() ![]() It makes sense given that the original play is inextricably linked to music. ![]() Instead of being set in Paris in the 1800s, the new version of The Phantom of the Opera will instead be set in the French Quarter of New Orleans in the modern-day. That’s not the only change that the new adaptation of the story plans to make with regards to the Gerard Butler movie. For those unfamiliar, Andrew Lloyd Webber merely adapted the play into a hit musical whose chilling organ score remains one of the most haunting melodies in modern memory. ![]() However, unlike Gerard Butler’s movie, which sought to do a film adaptation of the famous play, Phantom is taking a mental step backward and kicking things back to the 1910 Gaston Leroux novel Phantom of the Opera. The film, which is tentatively titled simply Phantom, includes producers Harvey Mason Jr of Harvey Mason Media, and John Legend and his Get Lifted Film Co. According to Deadline, a new adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera (sans Gerard Butler) is in the works with Universal Pictures at the helm. ![]()
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