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Gerard Butler: Phantom Sequel Star?

Gerard Butler: Phantom Sequel Star?

Gerard Butler walks along Collins Avenue with a few buds in Miami’s South Beach on Tuesday night (December 30).

London’s Times reports that Andrew Lloyd Webber is planning a 2009 sequel to his megahit musical The Phantom of the Opera.

Gerry and Hugh Jackman are reportedly top contenders for the role. Phantom: Love Never Dies will open in New York, London and possibly Shanghai or another Asian city.

WOULD YOU WATCH the Phantom sequel — YAY or NAY?

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65 Comments

# 1
Joanna Gilby @ 12/31/2008 at 11:53 am

yes oh yes. book me a ticket.

# 2

First!

Have a Happy New Year everyone!!

# 3

Gerry looks mighty fine. Love that shirt. I think the new Phantom set in Coney Island sounds bad, but I haven’t heard the music so I’ll reserve final judgment. I don’t think Gerry’s going to do any live theater, but if the play is a success he might do the movie.

# 4

Ooh, I love looking at pictures of Gerard. He looks really good here.

# 5
Diana_Guminski @ 12/31/2008 at 12:24 pm

he went out but came back to me in the hotel. I fly everywhere with him when I’m not in Escondido. look for us tonight in Miami when we partay on our vacay in south beach. he isn’t wearing underwear, he never does when he’s with me

# 6
ill watch anything with him @ 12/31/2008 at 12:30 pm

UGH, could this man get any more perfect! I love him & secretly wish I was married to him, LOL. Mighty fine looking but also a great actor. Cheers to everyone on the New Year & be safe!!!

# 7

Considering that it practically ruined his career and that it took him three years or more to “recover” from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom, my advice would be: “Run, Gerry, run!!!!” I think the sequel sounds like a really bad practical joke. I cannot imagine Hugh Jackman ever being that desperate. Andrew Lloyd Webber needs to retire. He has inflicted some of the world’s worse music on us.

# 8

um yeah, hellz ya … I’d watch him brush his teeth, or pick out fruit, or.. well just about anything lolol.\

# 9

Happy HOTTIE New Year! Yowzha….he totally does it for me!!!! Gawd damn!!!!

thatboyisfine! @ 12/31/2008 at 12:45 pm

I think he is wearing boxers, but really, who cares. I’ll rip those darn things off with my teeth anyway, LOL!

That shirt is tight in all the right places too. His body is smokin hot and I love it when he looks a little bit worn out with the scruff. This is truly a man’s man and a woman’s man and MY MAN! All Man ALL the Time. Yes, yes yes yes yes…I need a cigarette!

He makes me feel all naughty and tingley inside!!!! :)

Holy HOT SCOT!

He was to BEST Phantom and ALW knows it. Rumor has it that ALW was hot for Gerry during filming and that the Executive Producers asked him to stop bugging Gerry during filming. It was obvious during post production interviews that ALW was as smitten with Gerry as is 99.9% of the female and gay male population is. I am sure he is just dying to work with this Hotter than Hell Scot again!!!

Look Mom, no hands or in this case, no undies!

LOL…………..he is such a guy. Gerry: “F**K nothing clean in this case, well then who cares f**k it who needs underwear the boys need a vacation too!”

I must be stupid or slow, but I cannot tell he is not wearing any underwear. However, I can see how handsome and masculine he is. I love this guy. Just really discovered him funny enough in taking my daughter to see Nims Island. Through the entire movie I was like, who the heck is this gorgeous man playing her Dad. I had no idea he was the Phantom or in 300. He is just so attractive.

What a gorgeously handsome man!

Virgingerry @ 12/31/2008 at 1:39 pm

Yes Virginia, there are REAL Men in Hollywood! BELIEVE!!!

Crowwoman @ 12/31/2008 at 1:52 pm

Collins Avenue… A gay center of South Beach… but he is trrraight, oh yeah…
LOL.

Crowwoman @ 12/31/2008 at 1:52 pm

Strrraight I mean.

I will definitely watch the sequel if GB plays the Phantom role.
Why change him, if it oh so worked the first time with him and Emily R. GB played the part so well, I just had to get my own DVD after viewing it on cable. He’s got the look, the X factor which HJ does not have.

Gerry's child @ 12/31/2008 at 1:58 pm

#5

Mummy…are you talking dirty about Daddy again? Please don’t bring another woman home like you did last year, for a threesome. You know I can’t get to sleep when there is three of you banging away in the next room!!

#17: You rant like a jilted lover.

He is on Collins Avenue…….gay area in Miami. Of course he isn’t wearing any underwear.

lasthouseontheleft @ 12/31/2008 at 2:17 pm

#21: You pout like a willfully ignorant fangirl who gets pissed the moment someone points out the overly obvious truth.
Gerard Butler is and will always be a homosexual. End of story.

Photographer: Where’s Jasmine?
Gerry: It’s OK, she’s parking the car like the dutiful woman that she is!!!!

No, no #24

It’s Kristi this year.

He always picks up a woman around October/November time so he can take her out in Miami at New Year for the photographers.

so we can also expect to see Kristi next August too?

Does he do the Miami thing every year?

so we can also expect to see Kristi next August too?

Does he do the Miami thing every year?

Ahhhhhh…..how cute. I see chipmonk cheeks is back!

Gerry is so gorgeous, handsome, and Adonis-like…I love him. He IS the Phantom..not some (sorry, Michael C. fans)wigggly-voiced tenor who should have stayed in English music halls..a real,l breathing, tormented charismatic man..Yum. I cannot wait to see “The Ugly Truth” in April, the dvd for “Rocknrolla” in January, and this film, “Law Abiding Citizen” filming soon. Look how happy he looks..how rested…I could just watch him walk. Ahhh.

He looks kinda dopey to me. I saw P.S. I Love You and I haven’t been so irritated that I’d wasted time on such dribble in a long while. Well, ever since I saw The Stepford Wives (shudder)

Definitely yes!! I vote for Gerry. :o)

#26…yes. It’s a seasonal thing!

Dumps in August. Picks up new in October/November. Miami at New Year.

Last year, Jasmine.
This year, Kristi
Coming years…Clay Aitkin

Oh My God! @ 12/31/2008 at 2:58 pm

Liz…

Jeez. Do you actually read back what you type…or are you too busy wetting your pants!

‘I Love Him’…’I Want To Marry Him’….’I Want To Bear His Children’

Girl, I just want to be there for you when he runs off with a man!!!!

Collins is a great area, not only gay, but where alot of the richies hangout. It is not as gay as some other selected areas. But Miami is Miami and where there are pretty people, there are gay men. I would be shocked to learn this man of all men is gay. He does not appear to have a gay fiber in his hot as hell bod. He certainly does not dress gay and his shoes are never gay! Love him!!!

Guywhoknows @ 12/31/2008 at 3:10 pm

For what it’s worth, my brother owns two clubs in NYC and Gerard Butler is NOT gay. LOL! That is actually funny. Now someone who is would be with the initials JS and starred in a movie that rhymes with Spank! Gerry Butler on the other hand loves the ladies and let me tell you, the freakin go nuts for this guy. This dates back before 300. This guy just walks in the room and the girls practically open up for the guy. Lots of his buddies in the biz are pretty jealous and he knows exactly what he is doing and how to get the one chick that gives him the hard time. Amazing really. I was in awe!

He ruined the first Phantom film so I don’t see why they’d let him screw up another one. I’m not a Crawford fan either, but at least he can sing . They did a lot of studio sweetening to cover the notes Gerard Butler couldn’t hit and it was annoying. Just because the director wanted to shag him doesn’t make it right to have him ruin a classic story by casting someone who doesn’t have that level of vocal ability. It’s like giving Britney Spears the lead in Carmen.

BTW, why are women so obsessed with the Phantom? Who wants a disfigured, mentally unbalanced, obsessed man to kidnap and control them? Seems kind of mental.

Second!

Happy New Year everyone!

WOULD YOU WATCH the Phantom sequel — YAY or NAY?

Only if Gerry took the lead role of Phantom and not Hugh. No, not Hugh. Gerry’s the best Phantom ever! Smolders full of a sensuality I’d never seen before.

Have fun Gerry!

Just Me.

WTF - my point was that he was pictured with Jasmine again in August…….saw her on NY’s then the next time in August of last year.

# 34 It’s gay enough. why hang out there when there are alot of other places there that are for the richies and not gay.
# 35 This part of your paragraph may be true… This guy just walks in the room and the girls practically open up for the guy. Still doesn’t mean he isn’t GAY or BI. duh.

ohcomeonalready @ 12/31/2008 at 3:32 pm

I can’t believe some of you are still talking about the ******* phantom…..let it go!

Crowwoman @ 12/31/2008 at 3:46 pm

# 35 - a standard coment in a such situation. someone says “Butler is gay” and then out of the blue appears some dude who states his brother/friend/auntie/coworker/whoever knows Butler and knows for sure he is not gay. I expected something like that.

What The Fart in Hell @ 12/31/2008 at 3:48 pm

#35

Thank you. Thank you. At long last! The confirmation he is a man-wh*re. And you’re shy in coming forward.

Ladies. Please. Please beware. # 35 has finally confirmed that Gerry, it seems, has NO ACTUAL RESPECT for women, and ‘wow’ , ”he knows exactly what he is doing and how to get the one chick that gives him the hard time”. Mmmmm…a bit pushy for sex, now that is scary!

Ride him you want to ladies, but always, always, take precautions with this man cause he’s been around….a lot! Maybe he should have a HAZMAT symbol tatooed on his a$$.

Ewwwwww. How the hell has this man not had an STD by now? Or maybe he has, who knows.

Hate to say this, but his d*ck has probably been in every infected sloppy p*ssy that is willing to put out for him in the USA since 2003.

NOW THAT IS A LOT OF P*SSY!

GOOD LUCK GIRLS!

Gerry's child @ 12/31/2008 at 4:24 pm

# 5

Mummy…

Leave Daddy alone and come on back to the hotel. He’ll bring his ‘new’ girlfriend back once he has finished partying. My diaper needs changing.

Love
Gerry’s love child

What is it about this guy that attracts the loonies? These posts are hysterical.

ohcomeonalready @ 12/31/2008 at 4:48 pm

#43 “probably been in every infected sloppy p*ssy ” - probably other orfices as well.

I am special @ 12/31/2008 at 4:51 pm

NYOB

Just because….he’s ’special’.

We recognise him as being one of us, ’special’. So ’special’. In the hope that the ‘one’, the ’special’ one, will come and ‘do’ us! All of ‘us’. The ’special’ us.

I’d be interest to hear the plot for a sequel to The Phantom. Maybe it will be a prequel?

urbanboi28 @ 12/31/2008 at 5:56 pm

OMG, all you people are crazy saying he was the best Phantom….are you all on glue ? He was horribly cast as was the other cast members of the first movie. Geralds voice was horrible, couldnt hit any high notes and sounded like he was struggling all the time. It’s weird that ALW once said that Gerald performance was what he intended the Phantom to really be…ummm ok….what about Michael Crawford and Sarah Brightman who made these roles to begin with.

Holly golightly @ 12/31/2008 at 6:00 pm

Same old argument.

Straight, bi, gay? Who the hell cares? He’s still all male and he still makes some hearts beat a little faster onscreen and off, be they female or male and no matter where one wears one’s heart. That ’s a good thing for an actor.

He can be anything you want him to be. An equal opportunity fantasy.

Diana_Guminski @ 12/31/2008 at 6:06 pm

i will be eating the bacon strips off his boxers by mdnight. jealous much, datalounge?

nox_ema

Juju juicy @ 12/31/2008 at 6:21 pm

I don’t understand what the big attraction is with Butler. He looks haggard, blotchy and has no sense of style. What is the big attraction? Trust me; he’s on his way out. None of his 2009 movies look remotely interesting.

Crowwoman @ 12/31/2008 at 6:23 pm

Brightman and Crawford both suck, IMO. I can’t stand his voice and her weird manner of singing.

Ya’ll realize he’s a closeted gay man, right?

Happy New Year everyone! I’m with # 37 on POTO … prefer Gerard to Hugh, although I am also a fan of Hugh. With regards to GB’s sexual tendencies, I’d prefer them to lean towards me (LOL) BUT, the more I read up on him and the more ‘casual’ pics I see of him i.e. off screen or non-red carpet events, the greater my suspicions are that Gerard is gay. Siiigghhh …

c.J. FROM oCALA, fLORIDA @ 01/01/2009 at 1:41 pm

Personally, I don’t think Mr. Butler should go for the stage play unless everything else goes south. For the most part, sequels usually are not as successful as the original. I feel he should forget the stage play and wait for the movie. This way he won’t be tied up as long in case he has other fish to fry. Just a thought!

Baby , i dont know where you’ve been but me and gerry have been spending our time in miami in our hotel… other than the few times he checked out the hot spots Weve been having our own party in the room , and damn is he so good !!!!!!!! YUM - wouldnt have it any other way ..

I say Nay. I wouldn’t be interested in seeing the sequel.

marilyn frycklund @ 01/04/2009 at 4:31 pm

Yes, Of course I’d watch Gerard in the sequel…He was marvelous in the first movie so why wouldn’t he be great in the next version? Yes, Yes Yes…!!!!

Sultress,

Yes!! Ger is the obvious choice for the fantom!! I always wondered why the phantom himself was to have a voice like Crawford which did not fit . It was to pretty with no real emotion showing. Butlers voice on the other hand was good, not perfect, but raw and lots of emotion !!! It fits the character better. I can see why Webber casted Gerry. The acting too was good and the combo with his acting and singing made the character right!! When I saw Ger in the Fantom I fell in LOVE. Not just in Gerry but the music grabbed me as well. This movie brought music back into my life that I surpressed for many years and Gerry helped with that too. For this I am grateful.

If Hugh would get the role I’d even fly to London to watch it!

MidnightGirl @ 01/16/2009 at 11:46 pm

I love Hugh, but Gerry is my favorite phantom. Loved him in the movie. I hope he’ll do the sequel.

RUTE RODRIGUES @ 02/20/2009 at 7:38 am

It got to be GERRY i can not see nobody else .He’s unique, my God are they blind? GERRY GERRY GERRY!!!!!!!You are the one and only, please do this for your fans and show everyone that you are the best.

I would watch anything with Gerry in it. I am going to marry him and have his children!! (LOL) I really am, I am working on becoming an actress. i’m going to move to LA and land a smoking role, and I will run into him. i’m going to propose to him!!!!!!

Photographer: Where’s Jasmine?
Gerry: It’s OK, she’s parking the car like the dutiful woman that she is!!!!

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