Netflix Developing Three Musketeers Movie

[Hunter Rider]

Netflix and Writer Harrison Query Developing Modern Three Musketeers Movie - ComingSoon.net

Netflix and writer Harrison Query developing modern Three Musketeers movie

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Netflix is teaming up with writer Harrison Query and Bright producers Eric Newman and Bryan Unkeless to develop a modern-day take on The Three Musketeers that is being described as Mission: Impossible in tone. Query reportedly offered a unique take on Alexandre Dumas’ classic tale that the streaming giant approved of and the project was quickly thrust into development.

Per the report, this is the second project Netflix has picked up from Query following the million-dollar deal they made to the writer for Warparty, which is being produced by Ridley Scott, directed by Andrew Dominik and features Tom Hardy.

This is the latest attempt by a studio to cash in on The Three Musketeers. All told, there are twenty-four film adaptations of the classic adventure dating back to 1903, including a 1993 Disney production starring Charlie Sheen, Keifer Sutherland, Chris O’Donnell and Tim Curry. Recently, in 2011, Paul W.S. Anderson tried his hand at the tale with actors Logan Lerman, Ray Stevenson, Luke Evans, Christoph Waltz, Orlando Bloom and Milla Jovovich. Anderson’s film brought in $132 million at the worldwide box office.

 

[sueb1863]

Nothing is ever going to beat the 1974 Richard Lester movies with Michael York, Raquel Welch, Christopher Lee, and Charlton Heston as Richelieu.

We'll see where this goes.

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

The Three Musketeers are almost as overdone as Robin Hood and King Arthur.

 

[sueb1863]

The Three Musketeers are almost as overdone as Robin Hood and King Arthur.

No kidding. There's even a cartoon version for little girls starring Barbie in which all the Musketeers are women in frilly dresses and they have a cat mascot. Not what Dumas had in mind, I'm sure.

 

[MadVillainy]

Eh... "modern" adaptation?

I'm good

Will love to be proven wrong though

 

[TheVileOne]

Sounds as ridiculous as the cinematic Robin Hood and King Arthur universes that both failed.

 

[sueb1863]

Whatever happened to that "modern" adaptation of Les Miserables that they announced in 2013 where Valjean was a lawyer?

 

[Dr. Evil]

How is a modern day take going to work? And if the film decides to diversify it's cast, will people be upset not realizing that Dumas was a quarter black? Or does Dumas mixed race background not matter?