SHERLOCK HOLMES producer Lionel Wigram has recruited Peter Straughan (THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS) to script a “Three Musketeers” film for Warner Bros. that will be geared at a “young, contemporary” audience according to Variety.
Wigram is planning to apply the same action-oriented treatment he did to SHERLOCK HOLMES. Straughan’s script will focus on action and “sexier elements of the story” which is based on Alexandre Dumas’ 19th-century adventure novel. It concerns the exploits of a swashbuckling hero named D’Artagnon who joins three musketeers in battling the evil Cardinal Richelieu.
No director or cast members have been picked yet.
Wigram hopes to turn the film into a franchise. Dumas wrote two sequels to “The Three Musketeers” to comprise the “D’Artagnan Romances” trilogy.
Wigram is presently at work on a sequel to SHERLOCK HOLMES that returning director Guy Ritchie will helm and Robert Downey Jr. will again star in.
Paul W.S. Anderson is also planning a 3-D “Three Musketeers” film but is currently putting the finishing touches on RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE, starring Milla Jovovich in her fourth RESIDENT EVIL film.
“The Three Musketeers” has been adapted to live-action film at least 15 times since 1911 with the most recent adaptation being Pierre Aknine’s D’ARTAGNAN AND THE THREE MUSKETEERS (2005).
Source: Variety
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