Ambitious stories, period costumes and five-star castings ... French post-covid cinema should look like Hollywood.
An adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' masterpiece
Les Trois Mousquetaire
is currently being produced in a diptych estimated at 60 million euros.
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of the Three Musketeers
in French in the cinema to compete with the American franchises
Director Martin Bourboulon (
Papa ou Maman
, or the highly anticipated
Eiffel
with Romain Duris) has just announced, via RTL, his leading cast.
The rising star François Civil will play d'Artagnan and give the reply to Vincent Cassel in Athos, Romain Duris in Aramis and Pio Marmaï in Porthos.
The happy band will have to get rid of the traps set by Milady de Winter, who will take on the features of Eva Green.
Louis Garrel will play King Louis XIII.
Lyna Khoudri (
Papicha
), Vicky Krieps (
Phantom Thread
) and Oliver Jackson-Cohen (
(S) exlist
) complete this high level European cast.
The identity of the main antagonist, the infamous Cardinal Richelieu, has not yet been revealed.
“
Today there is a desire for a breath of modernity, but which is not a distortion of the work, on the contrary.
The 3 Musketeers are the wars of religion, the place of women, it is life and death issues, it is the destiny of France, it is camaraderie.
All these are noble feelings that still resonate today and we must give them their full scope, that's why we decided to make two films,
”explained to
RTL
the producer Dimitri Rassam, who is also considering an adaptation of the
Count of Monte Cristo
.
The filming of the
Three Musketeers
is scheduled from August 2021 to April 2022 and should take place only in France.
The first part is expected for 2023 on our screens.