<Li> Kevin McNally as Joseph Buquet </Li> <Li> James Fleet as Monsieur Lefèvre </Li> <Li> Ramin Karimloo as Gustave Daaé </Li> <P> Warner Bros. purchased the film rights to The Phantom of the Opera in early 1989, granting Andrew Lloyd Webber total artistic control . Despite interest from A-list directors, Lloyd Webber and Warner Bros. instantly hired Joel Schumacher to direct; Lloyd Webber had been impressed with Schumacher's use of music in The Lost Boys . The duo wrote the screenplay that same year, while Michael Crawford and Sarah Brightman were cast to reprise their roles from the original stage production . Filming was set to begin at Pinewood Studios in England in July 1990, under a $25 million budget . </P>

Opera house where phantom of the opera was filmed