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New 'Three Musketeers' ... from Director of 'Death Race' and 'Resident Evil'
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In the muddled pre-production slates of Hollywood, we have rival Easter Bunny movies, two directors looking for the Roman Ninth Legion or its Eagle, and now The Three Musketeers have two revivals in the works. One is over at Millennium Films, and the latest is being prepped by Paul W.S. Anderson for Constantin and Impact. Anderson's is the, er, wild card since he's planning to bring us the blue-frocked ones in 3-D. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Anderson has penned the screenplay with British script stalwart Andrew Davies, who Jane Austen aficinados will always remember as the man who had Mr. Darcy jump into a lake.This film is aiming to remake the Musketeers in a modern mold, and not just by having their rapiers reach out of the screen to whip you in the face. "We are definitely modernizing The Three Musketeers without compromising the fun of shooting a period piece," said Anderson. "But in our film, corsets and feathered hats don't take center stage. Our version is rich in eye-popping action, romance and adventure." Which is, if I recall my Dumas, very much part of his original story as well. But hey, let's allow them to think they're reinventing the wheel.
The latest version of The Three Musketeers is aiming to film on location in France and Germany, and hoping to have the 3-D swashbucklers in theaters by 2011. In the meantime, I'm pondering a 3-D treatment of the scene D'Artagnan fleeing Milady's room stark naked, and hoping that doesn't come to pass.
Brideshead Might be Close to Revisitation
Filed under: Drama », Independent », Deals », Remakes and Sequels », Cinematical Indie »
The works of snarky author Evelyn Waugh are no stranger to cinematic adaptation, although his writing rarely gets big-screen love like William Shakespeare or Jane Austen. Perhaps it is because his novels are rife with dark humor, rather than heart-wrenching drama or light romance. The last to hit the screen was Vile Bodies in 2003, which became Stephen Fry's Bright Young Things. However, beyond the satire, Waugh also had controversial words to spare on religion. In fact, his novel Brideshead Revisited was considered by George Orwell to be untenable.Even without the defense of his fellow English writer, Brideshead gets its share of attention. It was made into a television miniseries in 1981, and director Julian Jarrold is now trying to get a big-screen version off the ground. The project, which has been in development for years, is set to start shooting this spring, although the cast has not yet been confirmed. (Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly were previously attached.) Although Jarrold is best known for his recent film, Kinky Boots, he's no stranger to literary adaptations. For television, he's directed classics ranging from Charles Dickens' Great Expectations to Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment.
The screenplay comes from Bridget Jones screenwriter Andrew Davies and Last King of Scotland scribe, Jeremy Brock, which bodes doubly well for the film. Brideshead tells the story of Charles Ryder. At Oxford, he strikes up a close friendship with Lord Sebastian Flyte and joins him on the family estate. There, he falls for Sebastian's sister while experiencing the collide of families, politics and religion. It'll be a particularly relevant film to today's society ... if things continue as planned.
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