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A 3-D 'The Three Musketeers' Brings Together 'Resident Evil' And 'Bridget Jones's Diary' Filmmakers
2 September 2009 9:00 AM, PDT
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I wish I could say “Slumdog Millionaire” had a little something to do with this (remember what the kids called themselves), but Paul W. S. Anderson’s decision to adapt “The Three Musketeers” yet again for the big screen seems to be solely based on the fact that the title lends itself easily to the 3-D format. Expect it to be called “The 3-D Musketeers.”
It’s hard to see the appeal, even with the gimmick. I’m not sure many moviegoers are still interested in the swashbuckling trio and their pal d'Artagnan. It’s been a long time since Hollywood’s last take on the Alexandre Dumas classic. That version, starring Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland and Chris O’Donnell, and featuring a popular song by Sting, Bryan Adams and Rod Stewart, was anything but a blockbuster hit.
Five years later, another of Dumas’ Musketeers stories, “The Man in the Iron Mask,
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Del Toro hopes to remake 'Monte Cristo'
25 February 2009 8:14 AM, PST
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Guillermo del Toro has revealed that his dream project is a "Gothic-Western" remake of The Count Of Monte Cristo. Speaking to MTV News, the Hellboy director said that he hopes to one day helm a reinvention of Alexandre Dumas's classic novel. "It's a Gothic-Western retelling of The Count Of Monte Cristo, and I co-wrote it with Kitt Carson and Matthew Robbins around 1993 to 1998," he said of the script, thought to be titled The Left Hand of Darkness. (more)
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Frank Wildhorn's The Count Of Monte Cristo to open March 14 in St. Gallen, Switzerland
18 February 2009 8:49 AM, PST
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The Count of Monte Cristo at the Theatre of St.Gallen. Based on the success novel by Alexandre Dumas and a number of screen adaptations, the thrilling story now makes it to the stage as a musical for the first time. For this production the leading team around Broadway composer Frank Wildhorn was very much focused on bringing the emotions, passions, and the intense narrative style of the novel to life in the musical too. In its realisation, director Andreas Gergen combines raving fighting and fencing scenes, emotional moments, sweeping melodies, and a dramatic story-line within the framework of an impressive mise-en-sc?ne.
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