After The 3 Musketeers: Pierre Nini in The Cap and Dagger, which will hit theaters in 2024

After The 3 Musketeers: Pierre Nini in The Cap and Dagger, which will hit theaters in 2024

In 2025, Hollywood will have its own DCU (DC Universe), led by James Gunn and Peter Safran, and in which Batman and Superman will begin again. In France, it officially launched on April 5th of this year, the day of the release of 3 Musketeers: D’Artagnan, the first brick of our hexagonal DCU: Dumas Cinematic Universe.

The company does not yet have an official name on this side of the Atlantic. And maybe he never will. But this acronym fits him like a glove in the hands of d’Artagnan and his friends. Like Warner in the DC catalog, Pathé relies on the great heroes of local literature to create movies with big appeal.

While promoting Martin Bourbulon’s feature film, the actors did not hesitate to describe the characters as “French Superheroes”. A term that we find precisely in the intention of the next adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo, written and directed by the duo Alexandre de la Patellier – Mathieu Delaporte (already the authors of the screenplay of 3 Musketeers) and performed by Pierre. Nina.

While the second part of 3 Musketeers, Milady, is expected in our theaters on December 13 this year, The Count of Monte Cristo will be released in the second half for a scheduled release on October 23, 2024. The only actor. At the moment, actor Pierre Nini announces the color: “The ambition and power of the project compel us as much as they inspire us. We want to create a great adventure, character, but above all…revenge film.”

“Our film follows the perspective of Edmond Dantès, the first French superhero, who moves from the light to the shadows and becomes the embodiment of the masked avenger”The writers and directors continued in a press release announcing the project’s launch. “We are lucky to be working with an extraordinary team and have Pier Nini who will be a Monte Cristo like you have never seen before.”

We want to make a great film about adventure, characters, but above all…revenge.

A last sentence that says a lot about the ambitions of the feature film. And the challenge he will have to face. Even if it was adapted less than 3 Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo has already been the subject of about thirty transpositions on the small and big screens. The most recent is the 2002 American film starring Jim Caviezel, while Jose Dian’s mini-series starring Gerard Depardieu remains one of the most famous.

Written by Alexandre Dumas in collaboration with Auguste Macquet and published episodically between 1844 and 1846, The Count of Monte Cristo is inspired by the news and tells the story of Edmond Dantes’ revenge on his friends who murdered and wrongfully imprisoned him. When he was about to be engaged, he was betrayed as a conspirator in the pay of Napoleon Bonaparte.

Revenge, which he particularly carries out by endorsing the identities of various characters. Including the Count of Monte Cristo. Unless there is a time change in the story, none of the characters from The 3 Musketeers should appear in the film, as d’Artagnan’s adventures take place in 1625, during the reign of Louis XIII. and by Edmond Dantes in 1815, when Louis XVIII was in power.

Next ideas?

Dumas’ cinematic world, which is currently being constructed, is not supposed to be a shared world. This will not prevent him from forming a coherent whole with shared talents in key positions (Alexandre de la Patellier and Mathieu Delaporte at the start) and unity of tone and ambition. Not even the narration of certain films.

Here’s what Alexandre Dumas did with his 3 Musketeers, offering them two additional adventures: “After 20 years” and “The Viscount of Bregellon”, which returns to the famous story of the mysterious man in the iron mask, was adapted in 1998 with Leonardo DiCaprio. If there’s success, D’Artagnan, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis will not only be at the forefront of this wave of rereads: they’ll also be repeat players.

Source: Allocine

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