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 Posted: Sat May 13, 2006 4:57 pm
With the recent surge in PotO popularity and the reprinting of Susan Kay's Phantom due to popular demand I've been hearing rumors about it being made into a movie. I'm sure these are just rumors rolleyes but doesn't Steven Spielberg own the rights to the book and was planning on making it into a movie way long ago? Phantom of the Opera.com FAQs Steven Spielberg's company, Amblin, has held the screen rights to Susan Kay's Phantom since the 90s. Studios often buy reprint rights to the novels at the same time, so in all likelihood, neither Kay nor the previous publishers own the rights to do a reprint. Spielberg is apparently moving forward with some kind of production, though it is still at a very early stage, so don't get too excited yet. I imagine he is holding on to the novel rights, in order to release it again when his version is ready to come out. Source --> http://www.phantomoftheopera.com/modules/xoopsfaq/index.php?cat_id=2Forgive me if I'm being stupid.
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Posted: Sat May 13, 2006 7:59 pm
Hmn. Never heard those rumors.
Though, they're probably still that--rumors. I personally don't think it's right to endorse a phic like that, but then again, I just can't see the book being successful as a film.
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Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 7:57 pm
Indeed, it's far too long. Each segment would have to amount to twenty minutes or less.
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Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 6:58 pm
PhantomoftheFox Indeed, it's far too long. Each segment would have to amount to twenty minutes or less. Well, of course they would have to take non-important parts out just like any other book-to-movie film.
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Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 9:32 pm
crystal_raye PhantomoftheFox Indeed, it's far too long. Each segment would have to amount to twenty minutes or less. Well, of course they would have to take non-important parts out just like any other book-to-movie film. Well, basically all parts of the book are important to the story Kay weaves. So really, it's impossible to make a movie. Maybe TV miniseries, but not a movie.
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Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 1:11 pm
Utakan crystal_raye PhantomoftheFox Indeed, it's far too long. Each segment would have to amount to twenty minutes or less. Well, of course they would have to take non-important parts out just like any other book-to-movie film. Well, basically all parts of the book are important to the story Kay weaves. So really, it's impossible to make a movie. Maybe TV miniseries, but not a movie. Even better than a movie. Great idea exclaim
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Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 2:14 pm
Wow, I haven't heard (or read) those rumours before. I'm not sure how successful it'd be as a movie either, but who knows? I agree that it'd make much more sense to make it into a miniseries.
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Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2006 7:26 am
Rumors and more rumors, I think.
I think a movie would be fun to contemplate, but it is ultimately unfeasible not to mention I can think of the inevitable confusion that would result from the descrepancy between Leroux and Kay. "Based on a novel by Susan Kay based on a novel by Leroux--no, Leroux's is the original novel, not Kay's--no, Kay is not the creator of Phantom (though some phans seem to wish she was), she just wrotethe thing based on his book, get it see? It's not really Phantom of the Opera, but it is--"
I think it would just be hard to endorse fanon for the big screen.
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Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2006 10:09 am
Really. Because let's look at it this way. Whenever you have a movie based on a book, in previews you are going to have the "Based on the best-selling novel by..." in there. And yes Kay wrote Phantom, but it's a fan fiction. Those aren't her characters (well, not Erik, Christine, The Persian, and Raoul anyway) and the later half of her book is not her plot.
It would set off a war between phans and those turned towards Phantom through the movie. Which, oddly, is like the semi-war we have with those who swear by the movie and have crowned Gerard Butler their Erik. Yeah, copyrights are up. Leroux's dead and nobody totally owns them anymore. But still. It's Gaston Leroux's book and I think the Leroux family would have quite a say in this.
Kay can cry all she wants if this is honestly true. But I don't think she'll get her name out anymore this way. You eventually have to come to the brick wall here.
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