The Phantom of the Opera.. The Sequel?!?

[raine]

It's now been announced. Andrew Lloyd Webber is creating the sequel to the Phantom of the Opera. It will be called The Phantom of Manhattan.


www.andrewlloydwebber.com/sections/news/videodiary/diary-mar-07/index.php?section=news

Personally, I have a very strong disaproval of it, but what do you think?

" Iam not particularly a fan of sequels... Disney ruined Lion King and now Webber's going to ruin Phantom. I say, don't spoil the story! Don't re-write or add on to a story that has touched the lives of so many people for so many years! If something is meant to have a sequal, it the writer would have known from the beginning; Gaston Leroux did not intend for there to be a second part to his story, and so there should not be one. (Esp. for everyone who belives that the phantom was actually real. Writing a completely fictional saga as a continuation of his life is insulting.) "

[reverie]

Are you effing serious?

I can't picture. I may be wrong, but I'll be waiting to see it crash and burn.

[Miho]

Oh you gotta be kiddin me.....

[Ari]

Ugh, don't even get me started. ALW has gone off the deep end. Phantom of Manhattan, of all things, is probably one of the worst things I have ever read...

*weeps for her fandom*

[theatrewraith]

Well, I've known about this for a while and I disapprove strongly. Phantom of Manhattan really was no good. Webber should know better than to ruin the Phantom legacy by coming up with this sequel.

[nimue]

The title itself is a laughingstock! The Phantom of Manhattan? Reminds me of the Maid in Manhattan movie. Lol.

[BrokenHalo]

I think I just threw up in my mouth a little.

I never read Phantom of Manhatten, but I heard it's pretty much complete crap. I love PotO, but I'm not thrilled with the idea of a sequal, even less that he's basing it off something that's horrible on its own. If he was so intent on making a sequal, he should at least give his fans the dignity of writing one of his own.

[blue]

... ugh.



(although, I admit, I liked Lion King 2.)

[chero]

I liked Lion King 2, too. Oh well...