Filmmaker Roland Emmerich is taking a break from destroying the world to produce a modern-day adaptatin of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute.
Variety reports that the film will follow “15-year-old Tim Walker, who is sent from London to the Austrian Alps to attend the renowned Mozart boarding school, where he discovers a centuries-old forgotten passageway into the fantastic world of Mozart’s most famous opera.”
“The contemporary approach mixed with the fantastic world of sorcerers and witches that the opera brings along makes me really excited to co-produce this project,” said Emmerich.
Emmerich’s Centropolis Entertainment is producing the film with Berlin-based Filmmer, with German writer-director Florian Sigl and Flimmer CEO Christopher Zwickler aiming to have the project ready for release by Christmas 2018.
Originally published November 27, 2017. Updated November 26, 2017.
