r/HunchbackOfNotreDame

Every time Phoebus and Esmeralda had moment I kept saying “Great! now ask Quasi to be your third!” though I know it would’ve been unrealistic

If Frollo was around 65 years old in 1482 when the movie takes place, then he was born around 1416. Which means that he was around 13 and 14 years old during Joan of Arc's military campaigns.

Frollo would've been 15 years old in 1431 when Joan of Arc was burned at the stake. He might have even present at her execution.

Maybe that's where he got the idea of burning Esmeralda at the stake?

Is it likely that Frollo being told to take Quasi in didn’t save the judge at all. He was still DAMNED. he was already cruel and horrible. He later made the fateful choice of standing on that gargoyle at the end in the church that was watching him.

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In my opinion, the stage musical of The Hunchback of Notre-Dame that premiered in Berlin in 1999 and moved on to the English version in the 2010s, might be the single best adaptation to date. One thing that almost every single Hugo-accurate film adaptation does, is completely ignore the emotionality between the characters, as well as kind of misunderstand how Hugo would have imagined his world visually represented. Now in this version they both combined the flavour and the emotionally tied to the story-music from Disney's 1996 animated feature and embraced the story's dark and ambiguous origins. And of course a great depiction of the core morals.

So I have been aware since 2025 that Netflix is actually planning to do a Quasimodo live action movie, but till now, there are no updates about it... it's also unclear whether the rest of the characters will be included including Frollo & Esmeralda since this is more focused on Quasimodo's story journey in solo.

If anyone here has gotten any latest updates about it, please feel free to share!

How would Hellfire work? How would he repress his homosexuality? How would he react around Phoebus?