What better place to set a drama all about love, loss, and the power that music has to create a haunting than one of America’s most ghost-riddled places, the French Quarter? Since the new version will apparently cut “ Of The Opera” out of the title, it seems that perhaps the new version could have more to do with jazz or another genre of music that calls NOLA home. 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.
Show Details Show The Phantom of the Opera (58) Music Andrew Lloyd Webber (532) Lyrics Charles Hart (167), Richard Stilgoe (146) - additional lyrics Book Andrew Lloyd Webber (532), Richard Stilgoe (146) Recording Details Date 2004 Type Audio / Film Cast Method Studio Language English Recording Studio Abbey Road Studios Producer Andrew Lloyd Webber (532), Nigel Wright (75) Engineer Simon Rhodes (5), Robin Sellars (26), Mike Ross Trevor Mastering Steve Rooke (4) Liner Notes Joel Schumacher (2) Conductor Nigel Wright (75) Orchestrations David Cullen (100), Andrew Lloyd Webber (532) Performer Imogen Bain (2), Mike Batt (37), Paul Brooke (5), Gerard Butler (3), Simon Callow (8), Jesika Cannon (2), Lucy Casson (2), Oliver Chopping (2), Minnie Driver (9), Jennifer Ellison (5), James Fleet (3), Ciaran Hinds (7), Laura Hounsom (2), Halcro Johnston (4), Ramin Karimloo (34), London Oratory Choir (2), Victor McGuire (3), Kevin R.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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