EXCLUSIVE: Deva Cassel (Netflix’s The Leopard), Julien De Saint Jean (The Rely Of Monte Cristo) and Romain Duris (Heartbreaker) are set to co-star in a up to date, French-language model of Gaston Leroux’s traditional Paris-set novel The Phantom of the Opera, aimed toward a younger grownup viewers and taking its cue from the Twilight franchise.
SND, the movie manufacturing, distribution and gross sales arm of French business free-to-air broadcaster M6, is co-producing and promoting the formidable mission and can launch pre-sales on the EFM with a sizzle.
Alexandre Castagnetti (Stand by Love, Tamara and A New Lady In Paris) is about to direct from a screenplay co-written with Camille Fontaine ( Coco Earlier than Chanel).
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Filming will start this summer time on the world well-known Palais Garnier opera home, or Opéra Garnier, in Paris, towards the backdrop of its theatre, backstage areas, domed roof and subterranean vaulted cistern, typically known as its lake.
The manufacturing has additionally gathered a high-profile crew topped by cinematographer Nicolas Bolduc (The Rely of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers 1 & 2), manufacturing designer Clovis Weill (Marie Antoinette, Strolling Useless: Daryl Dixon, A Breath Away), composer Dany Levy (I Misplaced My Physique, Uncooked) and choreographer Marion Motin (The Substance, The final Name, Christine and the Queens, Stromae)
Leroux’s unique 1910 novel tells the story of a phenomenal younger soprano who turns into the obsession of a disfigured man residing within the watery subterranean labyrinth underneath the Opéra Garnier however resists his advances.
In Castagnetti’s up to date adaptation, Cassel will star as 18 yr previous Anastasia, who’s newly-arrived in Paris and filled with hopes and desires as she takes up a place as a ballet dancer on the opera home.
Formidable inventive director, James Figueras (Duris), is reviving Orpheus, the mythic opera by Ernest Dupré, impressed by the Greek mythological determine of Orpheus and his journey into the underworld in the hunt for his useless spouse Euridice.
One evening, Anastasia meets the opera home’s legendary phantom (Saint Jean) and so they embark on an unimaginable love story. In the meantime the prima ballerina, meant for the function of Euridice, barely escapes loss of life and Anastasia lands the star function.
“It’s a contemporary re-reading of Gaston Leroux’s traditional novel, which has impressed films, collection, graphic novels and musicals however amazingly has by no means been tailored as a French-language function movie,” stated SND Director of Worldwide Gross sales and Distribution Ramy Nahas.
“The movie will combine themes and genres to create an formidable romantic movie set towards the backdrop of Paris, with fantasy, interval and thriller parts,” he continued.
Nahas added that the $20M manufacturing’s tone and genre-mixing fashion takes inspiration from the Twilight films, which SND launched theatrically in France with success.
Rising French-Italian actress and mannequin Cassel made her huge display debut in Italian drama The Lovely Summer time and is quickly to be seen in Netflix’s upcoming big-budget The Leopard reboot.
Saint Jean just lately appeared alongside Pierre Niney in French-language swashbuckler hit The Rely Of Monte Cristo, within the function of Edmond Dantès’ protégé Andréa, who tragically seeks vengeance on the daddy who tried to kill him as little one.
Established and in style actor Duris was seen most just lately in A Lacking Half, The Three Musketeers: Milady and The Animal Kingdom.
They are going to be joined on set by members of the Opéra Garnier ballet firm together with its principal dancer Dorothée Gilbert, who will play the prima donna dancer within the movie, Victoire Bellanger.
SND is co-producing with Paris and L.A.-based manufacturing firm FullDawa (Riddle of Fireplace, Uncorked), which has beforehand produced fiction movies and documentaries set towards the backdrop of the Opéra Garnier such because the 2020 Arte non-fiction work Constructing The Paris Opera.
