Deva Cassel, Julien De Saint Jean & Romain Duris Set For ‘Twilight’-Inspired, French ‘Phantom Of The Opera’ Adaptation; SND Launching At EFM
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Deva Cassel (Netflix’s The Leopard), Julien De Saint Jean (The Count Of Monte Cristo) and Romain Duris (Heartbreaker) are set to co-star in a contemporary, French-language version of Gaston Leroux’s classic Paris-set novel The Phantom of the Opera, aimed at a young adult audience and taking its cue from the Twilight franchise.
SND, the film production, distribution and sales arm of French commercial free-to-air broadcaster M6, is co-producing and selling the ambitious project and will launch pre-sales at the EFM with a sizzle.
Alexandre Castagnetti (Stand by Love, Tamara and A New Girl In Paris) is set to direct from a screenplay co-written with Camille Fontaine ( Coco Before Chanel).
Filming will begin this summer at the world famous Palais Garnier opera house, or Opéra Garnier, in Paris, against the backdrop of its theatre, backstage areas, domed roof and subterranean vaulted cistern, sometimes referred to as its lake.
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