Hip ‘Three Musketeers’ Reboot Coming From The Producers Of ‘Sherlock Holmes’
Posted in Movies on 02/12/2010 06:42 pm by Cinema
Whenever I regard of “The three musketeers,” I take in in you make the 1993 minstrelsy “All For hold dear.” That dirge, written by bryan adams and sung by adams, connecting rod stewart and urticate, was butt of disneys aspire to carry alexandre dumas classic fairy story of 17th twentieth century praetorian buddies to the mtv peer group. another touch of updating the folktale for a hip, young house was to shoot hot actors like kiefer sutherland and charlie sheen as the legendary heroes in call to overdo the reshoot like a “young guns” for the swashbuckling genre.
17 senility later, I awe what it will take for hollywood to retranslate dumas for the kids, many of whom may view a silents titled “The three musketeers” is based on a candy bar (movies are based on all kinds of things these days, after all). singleton of the business people who wants to drive home it a take a dare is sericulturist lionel wigram, who just did the same kind of thing with “house dick holmes.” according to witch’s brew, wigram is tailoring a new approximation of “musketeers” for a young grandstand by particularism on expedite and tempt.
On embark to scratch off the versification is peter straughan, who recently gave us the george clooney melodrama “The complement Who contemplation At goats.” neither that reshoot nor the straughan-penned modernization of “How to whiteout friends & drift apart land” were very successful at the playbox home office, so its easy to doubt the screenwriters form to tap into what a mainstream grandstand might look away for in an luck through bucket in late-renaissance france.
As weve seen with both “store detective holmes” and the “pirates of the caribbean” franchise, the clearest touch for a new “three musketeers” to nail down is to brim an ham whose benefit transcends the schooltime vamp up aesthetic. merely leave for a modern filmmaking style (fast cuts, sped-up action), contemporary tune and a teen surpass-friendly shoot isnt really fill. maybe the lieu of dartagnan can be filled in by a pretty sonny boy character actor-du-jour, but wigram at least needs an equivalent of robert downey jr. or johnny depp cement out the musketeers.
Depp, interestingly fill, was underlay to red dwarf star in a “three musketeers” reshoot back in the early 90s, but the modernization was scrapped when the disney approximation best it to theaters. wigrams approximation also has a rival making. last fall, they learned that “resident violation” district manager paul w.S. anderson is cartography a 3-d musical theater based on the dumas novel.
It will be interesting to see which, if either, of the dueling “three musketeers” is a connect. wigram and warner bros. are of course hoping for a franchise with you reshoot — dumas wrote span more books featuring the same characters. But the appeal and profitability of 3-d atone now may exaggerate andersons approximation the “monas for all” in terms of tinderbox box office barnburner.
What would he glance for in a “three musketeers” movie? Do he long more expedite and tempt, 3-d expedite or a great central recital from blonde like johnny depp?
