As early as 1988, Andrew Roy Weber, the creator of the musical, wanted to use the original crew to make it into a movie, and Warner Bros. bought its copyright. However, in 1989, Weber and his wife Sarah Brightman had a relationship crisis and divorced in 1990. Sarah Brightman's resignation as the heroine caused the filming of the film to be repeatedly delayed. It was not until 2000 that Weber picked up this dream that had been hidden in his heart for many years again, but at this time many of the original actors were old, especially Crawford, who was nearly 60 years old, declined the role of Phantom. Due to the difficulty of casting, Warner Bros. was not optimistic about the prospects of "The Phantom of the Opera", and only paid $55 million, which made the director very embarrassed. It is for this reason that the crew boldly employs a group of young actors. There is no star support, but the director still confidently said that as long as half of the people who originally watched the musical watched the movie, the crew would have $3 billion in box office revenue.
Although musicals and movies are essentially different, Weber is particularly satisfied with his new attempt, which took 18 years to make a movie. In addition to the well-known music in the original musical, the soundtrack of "The Phantom of the Opera" was also written by Andrew Roy Webber himself.
Joe Schumacher served as the director and screenwriter of the movie "The Phantom of the Opera". Originally, the production company preferred Shekhar Kapur (Shekhar Kapur), but as early as the planning period of the film in the 90s, Joe Schumacher had become the most suitable director in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s mind. The candidate, at his insistence, Joe Schumacher finally took over the directorship.
