Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24589671-20141117031643/@comment-25125349-20141125102248

CoolDudeAl wrote: MattPriceTime wrote: Well Phantom's book is long since public domain, so similar to Oz, they could do but play it safe around the things specific to the ALW musical, which is not.

The show could pull a lot of awesome characters from French lit, (such if they ever wanted to touch stuff from Disney's Hunchback)

The only imperical problem being those guys wouldn't make as much sense being imported into the FTL, since in truth a lot of the major French lit stories are dependent on their historical placement. They'd need to put them in their own world like Frankenstein or Alice, or else there would need to be some serious editing to make them fit. Phantom and Hunchback could work in Land Without Color or Victorian England (well, Victorian France, which is near Victorian England, lol). Time wise VE would make more sense, but mood wise LWC would make more sense, for those two stories at least. We've already technically had French literature on the show though: one version of Cinderella is written by a French man, and Beauty and the Beast is written by a French woman.

When i typed that i was giving a distinction between "lit" and "fairy tale" but that's splitting hairs lol.

Phantom could work in the LWC, as that seems more the gothic setting. (assuming it has a France), as they can alter the origin if need be.

Hunchback is tougher as that's an earlier time period (when it takes place that is, not when it was written), since they'd need some magic to fix that, since otherwise Quasi and gang have been long since dead before Frankenstein was bringing the dead to life and Erik was terrorizing opera managers.

Also i encourage anyone to dig deeper into both Victor Hugo and Gaston Leroux's bodies of work. While I doubt Once will dive that deep, they both have a bunch of really intresting things worth digging up if you are a fan of works like Phantom and Hunchback.