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Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical was itself made into [[The Movie|a movie]] in 2004 after years in [[Development Hell]], starring Emmy Rossum as Christine and Gerard Butler as Erik, the Phantom. In 2011, London's Royal Albert Hall hosted a 25th anniversary staging that was released on video the following year.
Leroux's novel had quite a few film adaptations long before the musical arrived in 1986. The first was a Russian production, which is only known due to surviving publicity material and the film is lost. The second, most famous, and more faithful excluding some minor quips (the titular Phatom's and Ledoux's backgrounds and the whole final act) was the 1925 silent film with [[Lon Chaney]] as Erik (which has since fallen in the public domain and may be watched [http://www.archive.org/details/ThePhantomoftheOpera here] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20120924054906/http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5224364451553593147 here]. And [http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/The_Phantom_of_the_Opera/854375?trkid=2361637 on Netflix]{{Dead link}}, if you have it.). While the novel and many films saw the Phantom as pitiable, the image of him as an outright romantic figure is one established by the musical and its fanbase.
There are also multiple musical adaptations apart from Andrew Lloyd Webber's. The one most frequently performed—developed at around the same time as the Lloyd Webber show but unstaged until several years after it—was written by Maury Yeston (''Nine'') and Arthur Kopit and is simply called ''Phantom.'' The story is also spoofed in the [[Discworld]] novel ''Maskerade''.
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* [[Acting for Two]]: In the silent film, they must have really liked Joseph Buquet's [[Large Ham|hamming]] [[One-Scene Wonder|it up]], so they have the actor also play his twin brother, who finds him dead.
* [[Adaptational Attractiveness]]: Gerard Butler's Phantom in the film version is rather less ugly than his stage counterparts, to the point that film critic Richard Roeper quipped "He's the Fashionably-Scarred Stud of the Opera."
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20131109160404/http://unlimitedmusic.se/IMG/peterjoback.jpg Peter Jöback] who plays the part on West End between March and September 2012 originally auditioned to play the Phantom on Broadway but was rejected because he was considered too good looking for the part. He was offered the part of Raoul instead, turned it down and was then contacted by Andrew Lloyd Webber who asked him to come play the role in London.
* [[Adaptation Dye Job]]: The book Christine was blonde, but in all stage productions and the movie, she is a brunette.
** Averted in the Hungarian production—Christine is sometimes blonde here. The actresses seem to have wigs the same colour as their own hair.
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