Source: https://deadline.com/2020/01/game-of-th ... 202822960/Pixomondo, the VFX firm responsible for the dragons in Game of Thrones, has come on board the Roland Emmerich-produced feature film adaptation of Mozart’s The Magic Flute. The company, which also won an Academy Award for its work on Martin Scorsese’s Hugo, is joining the project alongside German film fund Hessenfilm. Pixomondo will be responsible for the visual effects and character animations in this English-language adaptation of the famous opera, while Hessenfilm will be supporting the project with a subsidy of €350,000.
The story is set in today’s Europe; when 17-year old Tim Walker is sent from London to the Austrian alps, to start his singing scholarship at the legendary Mozart boarding school, he discovers a century old forgotten passageway into the fantastic world of The Magic Flute.
The project is currently in pre-production with plans to begin shooting in late summer 2020. Midway and Independence Day director Roland Emmerich produces through his Centropolis Entertainment shingle alongside Flute Film’s Christopher Zwickler and former Pantaflix exec Fabian Wolfart. Commercial director Florian Sigl, who has a background in classical music, is helming.
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Interesting! 
Looking forward to this, though I will certainly want to listen to the original opera prior to watching the movie. I suppose the modern setting is obligatory in this day and age, but I'm curious to see what disaster movie maestro Emmerich will do with a Mozart opera buffa. Unlike many others, I do not consider Emmerich a rubbish director. Admittedly he is hit and miss, and VFX-heavy disaster films certainly are his forte, but I don't think his film-making range is as narrow as some claim it is.
What I certainly want from this movie is a full-fledged faithfully adapted score from Mozart's opera, NOT a mediocre original score with just a few snippets of the classical composer's work to placate classical music lovers as we got in Disney's Nutcracker and the Four Realms (Grr, James Newton Howard
). Basically, the person responsible for this movie's score should adapt it from Mozart's opera the same way George Bruns adapted Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty ballet score for the 1959 Disney animated feature of the same name.
Looking forward to this, though I will certainly want to listen to the original opera prior to watching the movie. I suppose the modern setting is obligatory in this day and age, but I'm curious to see what disaster movie maestro Emmerich will do with a Mozart opera buffa. Unlike many others, I do not consider Emmerich a rubbish director. Admittedly he is hit and miss, and VFX-heavy disaster films certainly are his forte, but I don't think his film-making range is as narrow as some claim it is.
What I certainly want from this movie is a full-fledged faithfully adapted score from Mozart's opera, NOT a mediocre original score with just a few snippets of the classical composer's work to placate classical music lovers as we got in Disney's Nutcracker and the Four Realms (Grr, James Newton Howard
). Basically, the person responsible for this movie's score should adapt it from Mozart's opera the same way George Bruns adapted Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty ballet score for the 1959 Disney animated feature of the same name.