New Trailer for The Three Musketeers!
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A new full length trailer for Paul W.S. Anderson’s version of The Three Musketeers, this one in 3D, has dropped. I have to say that this does make the movie look like a lot more fun than the first one we got. This makes the film, with it’s flying wooden ships held aloft by hot air balloons, (the “war machines” that Orlando Bloom’s Duke of Buckingham is so pleased with,) explosions and ninja assassins in hoop skirts, look like Alexandre Dumas by way of Jules Verne channeling Jerry Bruckheimer.
At least in this we get a better look at Christoph Waltz as Cardinal Richelieu and Mrs. Paul W.S. Anderson, Milla Jovavich, as M’lady DeWinter, not to mention the aforementioned Duke of Buckingham. (Bloom looks like the very definition of ‘fop’).
The titular Muskeeteers, Athos (Matthew Macfadyen), Porthos (Ray Stevenson), and Aramis (Luke Evans) look fantastic. Ray Stevenson goes a long way toward redeeming himself for Thor with his look for Porthos. They sound fantastic too… all except young Logan Lerman as D’Artagnan. The other Musketeers all have lilting British accents and the powerful voices of manly men. While I realize his character is much younger, I just know I’m going to be yanked out of any moment in which D’Artangan has to speak with that flat American accent. We don’t hear Richelieu, but even if Waltz can’t manage French, we’re going to get a Continental German accent. (Although since he spoke French in Inglourious Basterds, I’m betting he can manage an accent.) We don’t hear Jovovich speak either but given that she’s originally from what is now the Ukraine, she might be able to summon one up as well. I don’t know. I’d love to be wrong about Lerman, but it was definitely something I noticed in the trailer.
Reportedly, the Dumas novel only provides the framework for this story so we shouldn’t expect to see the classic tale. The screenplay was co-written by Andrew Davies, who has written so many scripts for high-brow British television (and some not so high) that it gives me hope for what he’s managed to do here.
The cast also includes Mads Mikkelsen (hello!) as Rochefort, Til Schweiger and the adorable Juno Temple as Queen Anne.
The Three Musketeers swashbuckles its way into UK theaters on 12 October, the US & Canada on 14 October.







