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UPDATE: Summit has just announced that it is shifting the premiere date for The Three Musketeers back a week to Oct. 21.
PREVIOUS: Summit Entertainment has released a new trailer for the Paul W.S. Anderson-directed The Three Musketeers. Pic opens Oct. 14. I went to the Transformers: Dark of the Moon premiere last night, and say what you will about the plot, Michael Bay was painstaking in his deployment of 3D in those non-stop action scenes. Some shots, he said, took a year of work before they passed his sniff test, he told me. The 3D was more effective than Green Lantern, I thought. With audiences turning up noses on films that are 3D simply because they allow distributors to charge higher ticket prices, will a period swashbuckling swordfighting tale be worth an extra couple of bucks to audiences as the 3D backlash continues? I’m not so sure. Here’s the trailer:
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Mike,
Dressing up a dog in Armani doesn’t make the dog less a dog. 3D should be used to enhance the storytelling…not be the storytelling.
With regard to this trailer, I posted early when announced… it better have ninjas, explosions, lots of effects and naked women in lusty sequences. Looks like they passed on the naked women…but, have pretty much used everything else you have seen somewhere. Of course, most of this has little to do with the time period or story…but, throw in lots of effects and noise…and, audiences won’t notice.
And, from this trailer…that’s exactly what they did.
Please, please be a huge box office disaster…if not…next we will redo Of Mice and Men…but Lenny will be a ninja in a green suit who flies around on a pirate ship in the matrix.
Now that’s a movie I wanna see: “Lenny the Flying Leprechaun Ninja and the Pirates of the Matrix” Your people should give my people a call.
Dear Fan,
All of the ideas I post on DH…I fully release all rights in perpetuity…so, your people can do it all by themselves…just don’t omit the naked women…they are always a plus…but, to be fair …maybe some Lautner abs for the girls.
It is my pleasure…
Great, that’s my kind of deal. See it in theatres in 3D.
Oh dear.
Ummm… What the hell is this?
If you don’t want to make The Three Musketeers then DON’T so why go to all the trouble to make something other than a swashbuckling movie whereas this is some kind of weird superhuman superhero too cool for school flick.
PASS.
It’s another ‘accents of the world’ movie. D’Artagnan as a sassy kid from the Bronx – that’s something I never thought I’d see.
Good God, what a MESS!!! D’Artagnan, was not 12 years old in the book. (Who is that brat who plays him?) Sheeshhhhhhhhhh!!! Why pick clasics to film and then just abuse the material? What flying ships? Lady DeWinter was NOT an action hero, she was a talented little tramp whose true weapon was SEX.
What are those flying ships??? Please Summit, Constantin… have mercy on us and never ever finance another Paul W. S. Anderson flick.
Umm, is that a baker’s three?
Are you joking?
This looks horrible. There’s no excuse.
They’ll never do better than the Richard Lester version.
Yet again a bad movies get made when a directer with no vision uses contemporary themes to make an adaptation of great literature relate too the 21 century masses.
Unbelievably bad, words fail…my eyes are still burning.
It’s RAY STEVENSON so who cares! I’m there.
Hey – it’s Jules Verne’s 300 Musketeers of the Caribbean!
This trailer pretty much sums up everything that is wrong with contemporary action movies. Guys like P.W.S. Anderson can’t tell a story so they bludgeon you with B.S. fx shots and wire work.
Should play well globally and translate into 40+ languages, as you probably don’t need to actually hear the dialogue.
These directors aren’t filmmakers. They’re money makers. Which is fine for the bottom line, I just think it’s time to change their onscreen credit to something more accurate and appropriate.
The 3 musketeers look boring and the villains look like movie stars. Why would I root for the boring guys? Bad sign.
LOLROF Thanks for the laugh! I lost it when I heard Mila was the deadliest assassin, blah, blah. I’m saving my 20 bucks on this one. Sheesh.
Every action cliche move and cheap line in the (discarded) book. Sickening. France as Nazi Germany? Anderson is a joke and Constantine should be closed up for good over this stupidity.
Who’s the 12 year old?
Bernd Eichinger will be rotating in his grave. The only way this is might work is if they dub on a laugh track and try to persuade everyone it was meant as a comedy from the get go. And even then I would still bet on the snowball in hell having longer legs.
This movie COULD be worth a non-3D look if it was NOT CALLED the Three Musketeers…
My mantra about the squalor of modern movie-making is — marketing is everything, and underlying material can get you a greenlight, even if you completely dismiss the underlying material and cobble together your own tripe.
Apparently, Original Material “can’t be sold” by the lazy marketing people at nearly every studio. Re: Bronx-born D’Artagnan, let’s not forget “hey papi” spouting Luis Guzman in the last version of The Cout of Monte Cristo, that was SO winning, enough for us to revisit.
I’m obviously in the minority here, but since I AM a minority, I’m used to it. LOL.
Ray Stevenson and Christoph Waltz!
Milla!
Matrix-style/kung-fu fight scenes, anachronistic and not historically accurate at ALL, I know, but still hot!
Jules Verne/steampunk-style flying/war machines!
I know the Three Musketeers is old hat, but this looks like a great 21st Century, b-movie update.
Not sure if I’d pay 3-D bucks, but I’d definitely Netflix it or catch it at the $4 second-run show near my house.
but why the hell they don’t point the ship’s big cannons up to the balloons? I think that’s also why no one uses big balloons on a war
Didn’t realize they made a prequel to WILD WILD WEST.