Dimitri Rassam is joining forces with Pathé on a €60 million ($73 million) two-part adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ classic French masterpiece “The Three Musketeers.” The star-studded ca…
The two sprawling feature films, titled “The Three Musketeers – D’Artagnan” and “The Three Musketeers – Milady,” will be directed by Martin Bourboulon, who recently helmed “Eiffel” with Romain Duris and Emma Mackey. Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de la Patellière wrote the script of both films based on Dumas’ classic.
Pathé will release theatrically in France and handle the foreign sales. The movie has been pre-bought by M6, OCS and Canal Plus. M6 will also be co-producing. Rassam, the CEO of Chapter 2, a Mediawan company, said he has “always dreamed of bringing ‘The Three Musketeers’ to the big screen and there is no better partner than Pathé to embark on this adventure.”
With movie theaters currently closed in France, Pathé Films’ CEO Ardavan Safae said the company strongly believes that “audiences will crave stories that are eventful and adventurous” in a “new post-pandemic world.” Bourboulon said “adapting Dumas’s rich work in this day and age has never been more relevant and the desire for a big show on the big screen has never been stronger.”
“What struck us was how modern the characters and the themes were in Dumas’ work. Society’s violence, the place of women, religious wars … It is with that in mind that we approached our adaptation,” said the pair.