Joel Schumacher was the director of a film version of the musical The Phantom of the Opera after 2003 , which was an adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber 's original stage musical .
It is about the eponymous Irish journalist , who was murdered by drug dealers in 1996.Schumacher directed a film version of the musical The Phantom of the Opera in 2004 , an adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber 's original stage musical .
Joel Schumacher