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.

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[bzoppa.livejournal.com]

Also, have you seen The Man in the Iron Mask (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120744/) with Leonardo DiCaprio? I thought it was awesome. I never saw Titanic and was seriously turned off by the teeny-bopper rage over Leo, but Iron Mask gave him a second chance with me. (First saw him in The Quick and the Dead, which I loved, and fifteen years later we know what kind of range he has.)

Jeremy Irons, John Malkovich, Gerard DePardieu, and Gabriel Byrne. Cannot find a better set of older actors for the four of them.

(and, sorry for all the edits and deletes. been a long time since I was on lj, haha)

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

YAY! I am really glad - I was a little worried for D'Artagnan.

yes, i have seen that adaptation, it was a really good one. I don't remember any adaptations of "Three musketeers" that I really like, apart from the Russian mini-series (but this is not very well known outside Russia).