8 Reasons Why Rian Johnson Should Direct Phantom Of The Opera

The core drama at the center of Webber's play is the love-triangle between the Phantom, Christine, and Raoul. But where the play gets its beating heart is in the dynamic between the Phantom and Christine.

It's an intricate relationship and one that requires a careful balance. It is neither a completely amicable relationship, nor is it a Stockholm syndrome situation. It's somewhere in-between, a mutual admiration and care shared between beauty and the beast that is doomed from the start.

Which sounds an awful lot like another on-screen relationship Johnson recently chronicled.

Rey and Kylo's relationship in Last Jedi is exceedingly similar to that of Phantom and Christine's. In both cases there is a constant sense of push-and-pull from both ends and a world around them that is constantly tearing them apart. Heck, Rey even rejects Kylo and drives him mad, in a manner that isn't all that dissimilar from the way Christine rejects the Phantom.

Johnson knows how to effectively write these careful balances of character interaction, which is exactly what this relationship needs to work.