The Untold Truth Of The Fly

After decades of writing music for films, Howard Shore, the composer of "The Fly," returned his focus to the stage. In 2008, he teamed up with Cronenberg to create an opera based on the sci-fi horror movie. In an interview with the New York Times, Shore said, "I always thought it to be a classical opera theme. A great story of love and death, of true love that survives physical decay and the ultimate sacrifice."

For the most part, the operatic version stuck with the same locations, characters, and plot points as the film, albeit with some minor changes. For instance, the opera takes place in the 1950s, and features a slightly different ending involving Veronica Quaife's unborn child. The film ends with the fate of the baby left unknown, while the opera version has the mother state that she will have the child out of love for the man she lost.

Unfortunately for Shore, his opera adaptation was not received well by the critics, according to Wired. While the sets created by the famous designer, Dante Ferretti, were praised, there was not much love for the rest of the production as the opera was given negative reviews almost across the board.