We get a constant stream of Robin Hood and King Arthur adaptations. Meanwhile, the works of Alexandre Dumas are right there waiting for other big-budget films. While “Lupin” continues to be a success for Netflix, we are now getting another big-budget adaptation of a French masterpiece: “The Three Musketeers.” Not only that, but the cast is already reason enough to be excited, because it includes Eva Green and Vincent Cassel.
Variety has the scoop on the upcoming big-budget “The Three Musketeers,” which is now in pre-production from producer Dimitri Rassam and Pathé. The project will have a budget of €60 million ($73 million), and it will be a two-parter, with the first film titled “The Three Musketeers – D’Artagnan” and the second “The Three Musketeers – Milady.” Both films will be directed by Martin Bourboulon, who just wrapped up the biographical film “Eiffel.” Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de la Patellière wrote the script for both films based on the original novels by Alexandre Dumas.
Eva Green is set to play Milady de Winter, while Vincent Cassel takes the role of Athos. Rounding up the high-profile cast are Vicky Krieps as Queen Anne of Austria, Pio Marmaï as Porthos, François Civil as D’Artagnan, Romain Duris as Aramis, Louis Garrel as King Louis XIII and “The Invisible Man” star Oliver Jackson-Cohen as the Duke of Buckingham. New for this adaptation is the addition of the character of Hannibal, which is based on the true story of Louis Anniaba, the first Black musketeer in French history.
“The Three Musketeers” is set to shoot both films simultaneously at the end of the summer in France, and it promises to be quite the cinematic event. It’s been a decade since the disaster that was Paul W. S. Anderson‘s steampunky adaptation, and before that, we got an extremely ’90s version. It’s about time we got a proper film about one of the biggest works of French literature, and if it includes a swashbuckling Vincent Cassel, we are in.
