Posted: 12/10/21 at 2:50pm
Pictures has acquired John Fuesco's screenplay for a new Phantom of the Opera horror musical film set in contemporary New Orleans.
Deadline reports that the film will be produced by John Legend's Get Lifted Film Company and Harvey Mason Jr. It was be an adaption of the 1910 Gaston Leroux novel.
Feusco stated that his screenplay is set in the nightlife of modern-day New Orleans, which is known as the most haunted city in America. The film will mix jazz, funk, and soul music with the French Creole culture, voodoo magic, and masquerade of Mardi Gras.
The musical sound is reported to be shaped around a "H.E.R.-like" singer who is mentored by a mysterious man while peculiar events occur in a night club that is trying to remain alive.
Legend's production company has produced films such as Jingle Jangle, The Legend of the Underground, and A Crime on the Bayou.
Updated On: 12/10/21 at 02:50 PM
