The original novel Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux, rather than Andrew Lloyd Webber’s popular musical play, will provide the source material for a six-part series, says Deadline Hollywood:
Gaumont, the French production company behind Netflix shows Narcos and F Is For Family, is in the early stages of adapting Gaston Leroux’s iconic novel The Phantom Of The Opera into a six-part TV miniseries.
The project is being led out of Gaumont’s UK unit, which is working with writer Anthony Horowitz to reimagine Leroux’s gothic story about a disfigured composer, who lives in the depths of the Paris Opera House and falls for singer Christine Daae with tragic consequences.
Stylistically, the novel is framed as a mystery novel as it is narrated through a detective pulling his information from various forms of research.[11] The mystery being uncovered is the Phantom who lurks through the opera house, seemingly appearing in places out of nowhere as if by magic. But, it seems that the mystery novel persona was a facade for the real genre being more of a gothic romance.
The novel was initially published as a serialization in Le Gaulois between 1909 and 1910.The first American edition was published in 1911. ◊
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