Monica Belucci’s Daughter Deva Cassel Stars in the French Twilight-Style Remake of “Phantom”, Shot in the Underground Cistern of the Opera Garnier
A ballet dancer falls for the mysterious pianist haunting the Opera Garnier, and the crew took the ghost story down to the theater’s real vaulted cistern beneath the stage. Deva Cassel is playing out the romance at the same subterranean “lake” the Phantom legend was built on.
The Opera Garnier really does sit above a stone cistern of water, the “lake” Gaston Leroux wove into his 1910 novel, and the new French film shot there during the building’s summer closure.
Le Fantome de l’Opera arrives in French theaters on October 28, 2026, billed as the first French-language feature adaptation of the story. Director Alexandre Castagnetti pitched it as a modern romance with “Twilight vibes,” leaning into the love story over period horror.
The €18 to 20 million production filmed across the opera house’s auditorium, backstage, roof, and that subterranean cistern, with Romain Duris co-starring as the theater’s artistic director.
The €18 to 20 million production filmed across the opera house’s auditorium, backstage, roof, and that subterranean cistern, with Romain Duris co-starring as the theater’s artistic director.
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