The monsters of old are coming back for fresh frights. Not long after news broke that Fox is moving forward with a Frankenstein TV series pilot, it's now been revealed that ABC is developing a drama inspired by Gaston Leroux's classic 1909 novel, The Phantom of the Opera.
Variety reports that ABC's The Phantom of the Opera drama will be set in the present-day world of the hard knocks music industry. The project will not be a full-on musical, however, with the show's creators opting to instead feature interspersed musical aspects in a structure similar to ABC's Nashville.
Desperate Housewives creator Marc Cherry is behind the latest Phantom of the Opera interpretation, with Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner executive producing and penning the teleplay. We'll keep Daily Dead readers posted on further developments.
Raised on a steady diet of R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps books and Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Derek has been fascinated with fear since he first saw ForeverWare being used on an episode of Eerie, Indiana.
When he’s not writing about horror as the Senior News Reporter for Daily Dead, Derek can be found daydreaming about the Santa Carla Boardwalk from The Lost Boys or reading Stephen King and Brian Keene novels.
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