I have not personally seen the Wizard movie either but from what I understand everybody is essentially a gate and the upper class use magic. They use equipment made by the Sorceror dude to use their magic.

So what if I make him a rebel that stumbled across the spell to "unbind" ones own phantom and otherwise it happened like that? not sure how to insert him in the main story afterward though.

I read the plot synopsis for it, in Magic Land everyone uses ring/driver based magic but everybody has the generic driver. Therefore my character awakening his phantom could create the unique red WizarDriver. I'll edit the CS when I get home.