The famous Roman Gaston Lero "Phantom Opera" will turn into the series, as is known, in 1986, a musical was put on the book to the music of the composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, and in 2004 the premiere of the one-name full-length film director Joel Schumacher took place. And now the French director Jean-Pierre Wife (Amelie, "Losers", "Alien: Resurrection") decided to turn the book in the series. The plot of the novel adapts to the television screen Writer Tony Krantz ("Dracula"), and the creator of the "Desperate Housewives" series Mark Cherry will perform in the role of the producer, who planned the TV project on the ABC channel.
"I love to work with Tony and was glad to know that he would write a script for this series. It will be a show with bright characters and the seductive culture of Paris in 1919. "Ghost" Tony is a provocative world filled with love, losses, secrets, lies and murder, "comments Jean-Pierre wife.
The series of the series will occur in Paris, as in the original novel, but will be transferred from the opera theater of the XIX century to the jazz club of the beginning of the 20th century. The center of the plot is placed by the British military pilot, the participant of the First World War, whose body and the face suffered greatly from burns. And instead of the young opera singer Kristin Dae, the main character of the original novel, the American actress Josephine Baker will appear in the series.
Gothic Roman Gaston Lero "Ghost Opera" was printed in parts in the French newspaper "Le Golua" from September 1909 to January 1910, and later was published by a separate book. The building of the Theater of the Paris Opera (Grand Opera), inspired by the writer to create a work, was built only 47 years earlier.