You can’t beat a good Saturday afternoon watch of the 1973 Oliver Reed / Richard Chamberlain version of the Three Musketeers followed nicely by the 1974 version of the Four Musketeers! Well, it appears someone at Warner Bros. isn’t content with my beloved version as news has come out today that the Alexandre Dumas père novel is going to be ‘rebooted’ (yes, another one!) and given the Sherlock Holmes treatment whcih I guess means action and lots of sword fighting. But didnt’t they do this already woth Chris O’Donnell, Kiefer Sutherland and Charlie Sheen back in 1993?
According to Variety:
Producer Lionel Wigram, the creative force behind helmer Guy Ritchie’s take on Arthur Conan Doyle’s sleuth, has tapped screenwriter Peter Straughan (“The Men Who Stare at Goats”) to update Dumas’ swashbuckling tale to appeal to young, contemporary auds.
Wigram, a former Warners creative exec who oversaw the first three “Harry Potter” pics and who now has a first-look deal with the studio, has set the project up at Warner Bros.
Straughan’s script will play up the action and sexier elements of the story much the same way that Wigram, who co-wrote and produced “Sherlock Holmes,” reimagined the detective (limned by Robert Downey Jr.) as a bare-knuckle boxing, martial-arts savvy sleuth.
I gues this isn’t a bad thing but my question to you all, will this new version ever be as good as Dogtanian and the Three Muskahounds?! Me thinks not!
More info as we get it.
