Dan Levy (I Lost My Body, Meanwhile on Earth, Breaking Point, Vesper, Star Wars Visions: Sith, Empire of the Wolves, For My Country) is set to score a new contemporary French film adaptation of Gaston Leroux’s classic novel The Phantom of the Opera (Le Fantôme de l’Opéra). The movie is directed by Alexandre Castagnetti (Love Is in the Air, Tamara) and will star Deva Cassel, Julien De Saint Jean and Romain Duris. The film tells the story of a young woman newly-arrived in Paris and full of hopes and dreams as she takes up a position as a ballet dancer at the opera house, where she meets the place’s mythical phantom and they embark on an impossible love story. Castagnetti also co-wrote the screenplay with Camille Fontaine (Coco Before Chanel, West Coast). The project is produced by SND and L.A.-based production company FullDawa. The Phantom of the Opera will launch sales at the European Film Market this month. (Deadline)
Levy’s recent projects include the animated feature Night of the Zoopocalypse, which just opened in French theaters last week and will be released in U.S. theaters on March 7, as well as Rupert Wyatt’s Desert Warrior (starring Anthony Mackie, Aiysha Hart & Sharlto Copley), which is expected to premiere this year.
