Remakes are so passe now. What you really need to do to make a remake matter is to release it in 3D!
And what better film to offer in 3D than a Three Musketeers film. Now we can have gratuitous thrusting of swords in your face just to showcase the technology and get a kneejerk reaction from the crowds. Because that has never been done before.
Next to get the 3D do-over treatment is The Three Musketeers. It’s been at least five years since someone has made a movie out of Alexandre Dumas’ classic tale of French politics and swashbuckling. Even longer if you’re looking for the last time someone did a good version. This probably won’t be one of those rare, good versions since it’s being done by Paul W.S. Anderson.
I am not a fan of Paul WS Anderson’s achievments unless you include banging Milla Jovovich. Its not like I hate him or anything. The films he has done are not WORSE for his effort. They tend to be what they are with or without him. But he just hasn’t done anything to impress me (excpet that Milla thing)
But the Three Musketeers is a story that we last saw on screen with the remarkably embarassing “The Musketeer” in 2001. That film still stands for me as the film with the best editing in a trailer as it made me want to see it so bad and thats all it was… so bad. And in 2003 Disney made a Mickey Donald and Goofy DTV around the legend. They have some pretty big feathered hats to fill for me after the unintentional set of films like Disney’s Three Musketeers and the perfect followup The Man in the Iron Mask (not sequels, but they work perfect together)
However, Anderson will be producing and no director is named yet, so we have that. But they still throw around phrases like “they’re “modernizing” The Three Musketeers but assures us that it will still be a period piece” which confuses me. How do you modernize something and still make it a period piece?
I am getting that tickle in the back of my throat that makes me worried already.
