Films I am excited about: The Three Musketeers

[alexandral]

OMPH! I have been alerted by always knowledgeable trailer_spot : The Three Musketeers are coming! In 3D!! With Ray Stevenson as Portos , Matthew Macfadyen as Atos and Luke Evans as Aramis! and Milla Jovovich as Milady!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and Mads Mikkelsen as Rochefort! For some strange and hard to fathom reason Dumas' books are not as popular in the UK as they are in Russia, but I must say that for me personally he is the number 1 as far as historical literature ( with some free interpretation of history ) is concerned. And The Three Musketeers trilogy is his best, I red and re-red these books so many times as a child. Hopefully there will be new editions of the English translation soon (this usually happens when new film adaptations are released) so that I can push it to my daughter - 12 years was the first time I read the books myself.

The trailer:

PS: this adaptation's D'Artagnan is a cutie.

Comments

[intermezzo]

Huh. That looks awesome!

When I was a kid, I watched the Disney adaptation with Kiefer Sutherland, Charlie Sheen (heh. LOL), Chris O'Donnell...and who was in that movie? Oh yes, Oliver Platt and Tim Curry and I loved it even if it was ridiculous. This one? Looks great. Also? Matthew Macfadyen! Luke Evans! OMG! \o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/

Haha, look at Orli Bloom. His pointy moustache cracks me up!

[rika-66.livejournal.com]

Эээ, ты действительно считаешь, что этот смазливый, круглощекий херувимчик подходит на роль д'Артаньяна? 0___0
Меня трейлер ужаснул. Полное бру-га-га... Такое ощущение, что кино по-голливудски окончательно выродилось в бессмысленный аттракцион, делающийся исключительно ради эффектной картинки.
ЗЫ: А на фоне младенца по крайней мере двое из трех господ-мушкетеров смотрятся потасканными дядечками предпенсионного возраста, годящимися мальчику в папочки...

[queenofthorns.livejournal.com]

Ray Stevenson as Porthos is enough to sell me on this! He looks amazing! I remember an ancient version with Michael York as D'Artagnan and Oliver Reed as Athos and Faye Dunaway as Milady! Eeee! I will certainly have to find some way to see this.

[shadowserenity.livejournal.com]

That looks really good!

I'll doubt I'll see if in the cinema, though, since it's 3-D. Don't really like 3-D movies - and putting glasses over glasses is uncomfortable.

[bzoppa.livejournal.com]

Also, Logan Lerman (D'Artagnan) can ACT. I was drooling over the 17-year-old in Gamer. Tons of charisma and depth. Even when he played a rich bratty kid in Gamer.

[dianora77.livejournal.com]

I love Dumas too, but unlike you I really dislike the look of this movie. Steampunk can be really cool if done right, but IMO, this is a completely wrong era for it. Kung fu moves in crinoline dresses just look ridiculous to me, sorry. :P

[darkeyedwolf.livejournal.com]

WOOO! I'm so excited for this movie! The Three Musketeers was my favorite book for a long, long time. (Everyone else I know is all "OMG THE MOVIE LOOKS SO STUPID IT'S RUINING THE ORIGINAL BLAH BLAH" but all I can think is "YAY, MORE MUSKETEER ADAPTATIONS!")

[lydzi.livejournal.com]

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH OMG THE ACTORS!! I'm so buying this! And was it a boat? Floating above a castle? oh well. Milady looks wicked cool XD. And I like Percy Jackson. Usually I'm not keen on teen actors but he's one of the few who don't make me want to strugle him so it's cool ^^.

MATTEW MCFAYDEN KLHGKJDFGUDSFLSDJL!!!!!!!!!!

Excuse me, excuse my monkey :p. Fangirl moment ;).

[vierran45.livejournal.com]

This looks like a lot of fun! The Three Musketeers has so many good adaptations! Which makes me more mystified than ever about how all the adaptation of The Count of Monte Christo seem fail so badly :/.