8 Reasons Why Rian Johnson Should Direct Phantom Of The Opera

Phantom of the Opera is a strange story. Dating back to long before Andrew Lloyd Webber got his hands on it, Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra, is a strange tale of a man roaming the halls of an opera house and becoming infatuated with a woman after hearing her sing.

Webber went to great lengths to normalize this tale, blurring the lines between the natural and the supernatural, and making the Phantom a much less deformed creature.

As divisive as Johnson's work was on Last Jedi, If there's one thing everyone seems to be able to agree on, it is that it's weird. Some hate it, some love it, but at least everyone agrees, it's a strange film that pushes the boundaries of what we know as Star Wars by bringing in out-there influences such as the aforementioned Wagner operas.

Phantom draws on so many genres and so many sources, it is an inherently strange story that audiences have just grown numb to. After playing for decades, the tale has been normalized. Having Johnson come in, bringing references and homages to classic horror and opera works, would push back against audience expectations and make something more akin to the original work.