With news breaking of composer Paul Williams (PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE) and Guillermo del Toro's intended collaboration on a PAN'S LABYRINTH musical, FANGORIA spoke to the legendary Williams to get the skinny...

"Happily, it's all true," Williams beamed to us this morning.

"With Gustavo on board providing music for me to add lyrics to I'm ready to start writing lyrics. Guillermo is a genius and I know he'll guide us to an edgy, dark but emotional and meaningful ending. The film is magnificent and it's an honor to participate in translating it to the stage.  Now, to tackle that torture scene. Eeek!"

For Williams, this is another quantum leap in his newly minted career renaissance, following the festival fever surrounding the doc PAUL WILLIAMS STILL ALIVE. And for us fans of the musical icon and sometime actor (his non-PHANTOM genre credits include starring in BATTLE FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES), this is a kind of dream project made flesh

Follow the story as it progresses in the pages—both pulp and digital—of FANGORIA!

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