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THREE MUSKETEERS Mark MMMCMLXXXVII1/2!!
Merrick here...
The company that recently resurrected RAMBO (quite well, in my book ) is turning its sights on Alexandre Dumas' THE THREE MUSKETEERS (sort of).
New pic will trace how swordsmen Athos, Porthos and Aramis first banded together.
D'Artagnan, the last member of the eventual quartet, will either be introduced later in the first movie or in a second installment. Dumas novel is in the public domain.
...says THIS ARTICLE in Variety.
So, it's an origin story.
There have already been numerous projects involving these characters, including (but not limited to) films from SUPERMAN producers Alexander & Ilya Salkind , a 2001 adventure directed by Peter Hyams (2010 and OUTLAND), THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK adaptation helmed by BRAVEHEART scripter Randall Wallace, a 1993 attempt starring Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland, Oliver Platt, and Chris O'Donnell, a candy bar, and there's also...this:
D'Artagnan, the last member of the eventual quartet, will either be introduced later in the first movie or in a second installment. Dumas novel is in the public domain.
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And stuff and junk
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Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds.
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Tim Curry as a villian - good popcorn film. When do you use an apostrophe for its? I never remember!
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It's sad when the majority of the news posts are coming from Merrick and Herc. Why does Harry pretend he has anything to do with this site? A couple posts a week aint cutting it. Can't we just turn this mother over to Quint and Capone since they're the only decent writers you've got anyway?
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Charlie Sheen & Oliver Platt ruled!
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Not CG but with midgets in big furry heads.
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Which was, quite simply... Okay.
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You us IT'S when you mean to say IT IS.
They did a good Count of Monte Cristo. We do need a good 3 Musketeers. Not that anything was wrong with the disney one, it had its moments. -
the best ever!!
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That's mentioned in the article: "a 2001 adventure directed by Peter Hyams (2010 and OUTLAND)"
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It's its.
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i have never seen that before but I really want that song. The actual show looked so boring I could barely watch it. I just turned my eyes away and listened to those sweet, sweet tunes.
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The proper technique for wenching?
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Kiefer and Curry overacted (but when doesn't Curry overact?) and O'Donnell was just blech, Sheen and Platt did a great job.
It's also a fun movie to give the MST3K treatment:
Queen looking at the map wall: "I just know there's a secret door here"
D'Artagnan and Aramis drinking: "Do you drink as well as you fight?" I Went to Boston College! "I'll drink anything you put in front of me" "What should we drink to" Don't drink to love! Please don't drink to love! "How about love?" Doh! Now we have to hear the Julia Roberts story again! -
The movie didn't leave such a lasting impression on me that I felt the urge to remember the year on it. I just couldn't understand where the sword fight on top of the ladders came from, but I did find it entertaining.
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I love musketeer movies. Whatever happened to Alatriste (with Voggo Mortensen)?
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an Oliver Platt Porthos movie that consists of drinking, wenching and hitting people over the head with tankards?
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Jun 11, 2008 10:23:21 AM CDT
Nice clip! From back when Anime was actually animated.
by pop_aristocrat
Anyone else agree that digital animation is seriously lacking in craftsmanship?
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There's four. Count 'em.
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mmm...tasty
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haha, sorry. had flashbacks.
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origin story first, then we'll see the transition in later movies to dark chocolate.
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Another revial movie. Maybe they'll bring back Abbot and Castello! I can't get excited over a Muskaters movie. We got lucky with Zorro 1.
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just put the money that would be used for this movie into the new Rambo movies?
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Best cast, best score, very true to the source material, fantastic cinematography, hilarious script... Charleton Heston as Cardinal Richellieu kicks Tim Curry's ass up and down the street. 'Nuff said.
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then they eat a candybar
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Honestly, why don't you just rename the site?
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Annette, you are getting to old -- and busty -- for this kids show.
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Jun 11, 2008 10:59:53 AM CDT
The 3 Musketeers are honoring the "Damn You Michael Bay" guy?
by cletus van damme
What about Pound Sand? Is there no "Gotta Eat" motion picture on the slate?
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With Oliver Reed, Michael York and Richard Chamberlin...they were required viewing in the early days of cable. Anyone remember Cineview?
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You know he'll be cast as d'Artagnan.
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Athos, Porthos, and 1-4-All are aboard the Starship D'Artagnan awaiting orders from Starfleet when all of a sudden...
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Versions are, indeed, unassailable. Even Lester's own '89 flick failed to recapture the magic (due, primarily, to a lackluster score)
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Absolutely awesome entertainment. Lester always made a sort of film around the film with all the soundtrack full of quips from peripheral characters commenting on the leads. It works best in his musketeer films. The swordfights are also great, each musketeer fights with his own personality, something lacking in today's action movies. One is an exemplary swordsman, one scientific and then there's Ollie Reed who just wades in using fists and blade. Great cast, great score and full of manly men and hot women - Sybil Danning and Raquel Welch - think I'll stick with that one.
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I personally prefer the Hanna/Barbera cartoon that appeared on Banana Splits.
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Na svoyem veku!
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Jun 11, 2008 12:14:42 PM CDT
Dogtanian and the Muskerhounds is the best version
by judge dredds fresh undies
Gotta love that theme tune.
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Man. I never saw that cartoon version of 3Ms, but it reminded me of all those anime shows they used to out on Nickelodeon back in the 80s. I remember spending all summer sitting through "The Little Prince" and "Belle and Sebastian" just to get to "Mysterious Cities of Gold". Ahh...thems was the days.
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He played Count de Rochefort, Richelieu's swordsman, in the Lester films. The Lester films came the closest of all and had the best cast. A little too slapstick for my taste, but still the best. The Musketeer books are so terrific all you need to do is write a script straight from the source. No need to change much. Definitely no need for Athos's origin, it's already in there. Hollywood is not capable of the European sensibility necessary for a good Musketeers flick. Because they're making it for an American audience, and Americans don't give a cineplex crapper about all the little historical characters and details which immerse the books. This movie should be made in France, in the French language with French actors, and would be 4 hrs long if faithful to the book. Would be a great movie then. All Hollywood should provide is what it's good at -- special effects, money for sets and costumes, technical stuff. -
Millennium Films is not so much "the company that resurrected Rambo" as the company that made REPLICANT, THE ORDER, DERAILED, UNDISPUTED, IN HELL, ALIEN HUNTER, UNSTOPPABLE, EDISON FORCE, 16 BLOCKS, THE BLACK DAHLIA, 88 MINUTES, CLEANER, MAD MONEY, DAY OF THE DEAD NEARLY UNWATCHABLE REMAKE, etc. It's not really fair to give them credit for RAMBO when they have made 90% mediocre straight to video action and 9% disastrous intended for theatrical release failures. Besides RAMBO the best you can expect out of them is a lesser Seagal movie (OUT FOR A KILL, TODAY YOU DIE, MERCENARY FOR JUSTICE), a barely released mixed bag (WAR, INC.), a hilarious misfire (THE WICKER MAN remake, possibly upcoming BAD LIEUTENANT remake) or a surprisingly good DTV movie by director Isaac Florentine and promising new asskicker Scott Adkins (UNDISPUTED II, upcoming NINJA). So unless you want to see the three musketeers played by Scott Adkins, Jean-Claude Van Damme and Wesley Snipes via satellite (like I do) I would not get too excited for this one fellas.
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Jun 11, 2008 12:37:57 PM CDT
Yes, Vern, I WANT to see the Pitch Black: The Chronicles of The
by adrianveidt
Who wouldn't?
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...the subplot of how the three spent hours on end, slaving away in a hot kitchen, trying and rejecting hundreds of combinations of chocolate, caramel and nougat until finally settling on the tastiest candy bar formula, once again wound up being deleted from the script.
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There is no caramel in a 3 Musketeers bar. Only chocolate and nougat. BTW, What the hell is nougat?
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When is a new Robin Hood coming out?
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Bodet and Destruction, this could only work with
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GIANT ROBOTS AND TOTAL FUCKING DESTRUCTION!!!!!!!
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The creamy insides when you bash in someones skull...hhmmmmmm braaains...
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Jun 11, 2008 1:01:02 PM CDT
Speaking of Millenium, and Rambo, and since Harry's given up on
by skimn
I expect to be crucified by 99% of AICN'ers but outside of turning half of the Burmese Army into puddles of strawberry jam, I was not that impressed. Stallone direction was clean and efficient, but the story was so simplistic, it was reduced to an almost comic book level.
Rambo says "Fuck The World", then gets a bit of conscience from Benz' character, says "Ya godda die for sumthin, bedda than live for nuthin", splatters a bunch of bad guys, then in yet another fit of "conscience" while staring at Benz, returns home to, what must be, his 85 year old Dad's farm. THE END. The running time on the shell says approx. 91 minutes, but my clock read 1 hour 20 minutes as the credits started to roll..thats one short movie.
And the mercs came from central casting, with the standard bullet headed Aussie/Brit/New Zealand (?) leader. What was Vinnie Jones busy? It was a decent rental, but not worth all the huzzahs it got from this site.
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...have a light layer of caramel between the chocolate outer coating and the nougat center to sort of hold the whole mess together... but I could be wrong. Nougat is actually element #116 on the periodic table... just after Kryptonite, but before Unobtainium.
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... actually had some pretty sweet stuff, in my opinion. You didn't go into that thing expecting to revel in the nuances of Dumas' novel . . . you went in for ass-kicking with swords!
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was that in Shawshank? :P
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I saw Stallone on Tonight Show a couple of weeks ago, and he said the directors cut sales would go toward the Burmese ("every single dime" I think he said). He also hinted that Lionsgate hadn't approved it yet, so I don't know if it's a done deal, although a years lag time sounds about right. Aren't we still waiting for the Kill Bill - Whole Bloody Affair set?
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First the Baby Ruth Story, then Mars Attacks, now this. When's that Pixar M&Ms movie coming out of development hell?
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and reconsidering his now-crippling fetishes with an aim to try making a better film. And I love the guy - hence the nick.
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No ones ever going to sanely argue the guy is an auteur, but he's a serviceably talented director who gets the job done. A good choice for middling budgeted films.
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Franchise was notorious in the late 90s for mid budget, loads o b-list name stars but no plot, pieces-o-crap like Get Carter remake, Driven, Ecks vs Sever, 3000 Miles to Graceland etc etc etc. And am I delusional or is that the Franchise Pictures logo lurking in the background of the Lion's Gate "gates of heaven/hell" logo/montage whatever.
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This is one of the laziest pitches I've heard. I love the Dumas novel, and a couple of the movies have been well done most recently the Disney one with Chris O'Donnel (was not a big fan of the Michael York version, but the Gene Kelly one was actually kinda fun). I'm sure it's being pitched as a POTC ripoff though. So it comes down to casting. My guess is it'll never see the light of day.
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Who cares.
NO one wants another Alice in Wonderland, Man in the Iron Mask or this.
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......isn't he????????
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Many of the filmed versions of "The Three Musketeers" over the years have been fun, some extraordinarily so. But in terms of being a faithful retelling of the ORIGINAL NOVEL (one of the greatest adventure novels ever written -- check out the classic translation published by Oxford, or the newer Pevear translation), I've only seen ONE that truly captures the essence of the book. It's the 1966 BBC miniseries version, filmed in black and white, and starring Jeremy Brett (well-known for his definitive portrayal of Sherlock Holmes in the Granada TV series) as D'Artagnan. The characterization of the Musketeers themselves was note-perfect to the novel, and brilliantly cast: Jeremy Young as Athos, Brian Blessed as Porthos and Gary Watson as Aramis. Mary Peach was a devilish Milady de Winter. The characterizations of Cardinal Richelieu (Richard Pasco) and his henchman Rochefort (Edward Brayshaw) were also spot-on. Most films make Richelieu out to be a stereotypical film baddie (I'm thinking of Tim Curry here), when he's actually a very subtle, Machiavellian type in the novel -- and his relationship to the Musketeers (D'Artagnan in particular) is more complex than heroes trying to thwart a villain. Rochefort and D'Artagnan actually end up as friends and colleagues when all is said and done! The miniseries has relatively low production values -- a score consisting of old classical music recordings, for example -- but the caliber of acting talent involved and the generous running-time (247 minutes) allowed them to really tell the story the way Dumas wrote it. No significant plot points are skipped over, and even the Musketeers' lackeys are all present and accounted for! Koch has released this on DVD, and you can get it for under $20. It's really worth seeking out. (Incidentally, BBC did a follow-up adaptation of "Twenty Years After" with Joss Ackland replacing Brett as D'Artagnan ... I haven't seen that one, but hopefully it'll get its own DVD release someday.)
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Very good.
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He was the guy responsable for the 93 version.
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I thought you were referencing the classic Christopher Walken SNL Census skit...an if you don't know it, you need to find it. pure hilarity. and Tina Fey's favorite skit that she has written...
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...just fantastic in those films. Reed has rarely looked better, ditto Lee and his eyepatch. Plus is that the last time Lee got to use a blade on screen? There's a lot of great info about the whole splitting the film into two movies sneaky biz too. What great films. Roy Kinnear bumbling, Faye Dunaway, all the swordplay you can handle, Lee "dies" by impalement-cant go wrong there, "How dare you wake me, its not even noon!!". Also, props for the mention of the version with Jeremy Brett (the greatest Sherlock Holmes ever) and Brian "Gordon's Alive?!" Blessed. Was very glad to see that get a DVD release last year.
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as Richelieu was damn good too. Almost as good as Roy Higgins, famed Cardinal Richelieu impersonator. "Ahhh, oui."
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Thank's four the English lesson! Just kidding - appreciate the answers, dudes. It's a shame more people don't use correct grammer on the internet!
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Instead of retreading familiar Musketeer territory yet again, why don't they adapt Twenty Years After. It's the GODDAMN SEQUEL and Hollywood never fucking made it!
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The Three Musketeers and The Four Musketeers from the 1970s were masterpieces. Just re-release them and save a lot of money and energy.
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That human DNA is 98% the same as monkeys, it is difficult to believe...until I come here. The '93 version was an atrocity on the order of...well, I'm looking through the 0% tomatometer movies and can't seem to find anything that compares...
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that said, fuck I love Kevin Reynolds. The way he shoots action, with many closeups, showing the ugly in beauty. He puts Bay to shame. The last 40 minutes of Robin Hood is amazing action filmmaking. When Morgan Freeman came through that door and nailed the witch with his sword was the first time I cheered in a movie.
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Dumas and Hollywood are a perfect example of star-crossed lovers. They are so perfect for each other yet result in such disaster. If H-Wood tried to do his works justice (not designing and marketing to the MTV crowd), they might be surprised that there is an actual audience for the actual works of Dumas. Shit, LA has fallen head over heels for Cormac McCarthy and from what I've read, that dude is seriously gifted and disturbingly twisted. Who the fuck greenlighted The Road?
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The McCarthy reference was an example of a great author whose works get translated instead of raped. If Cormack can get his works best-adaptations, Dumas deserves something that, at least, resembles his writings.
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