Anthony Horowitz, Narcos producer working on Phantom of the Opera miniseries

Last Updated on July 30, 2021

Back in the days when Alex Kurtzman and Chris Morgan were developing the "Dark Universe" cinematic universe for Universal, it was mentioned that their plans included a new take on The Phantom of the Opera. As we all know, the Dark Universe plan crumbled, and there hasn't been any talk of Universal doing anything with the Phantom since then… but there is a new Phantom of the Opera projects in the works elsewhere.

Deadline has revealed that Gaumont, the production company behind the Netflix series Narcos, is working with author Anthony Horowitz on a six-part TV mini-series version of The Phantom of the Opera. Horowitz is going back to the source for this one, making it a "reimagining" of Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel.

Leroux's novel was about 

a disfigured composer, who lives in the depths of the Paris Opera House and falls for singer Christine Daae with tragic consequences.

The Phantom Of The Opera has been adapted for the screen a number of times. It was the inspiration for a 1925 silent movie, while in 2004, there was a lavish reimagining of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical by Joel Schumacher.

I have watched a lot of Phantom of the Opera movies over the years, but I'm not burnt out on the concept. I'll gladly check out the Gaumont / Horowitz mini-series when it's ready.

Horowitz's bibliography includes twelve books in his Alex Rider series, seven books about The Diamond Brothers, five novels in a series called The Gatekeepers, two Sherlock Holmes novels, and two James Bond novels, among several others.