PREPARING MILADY ORIGINS AND BLACK MUSKETEER SHOWS
First movie will hit cinemas next April
While we are waiting for the next spring to bring us the first part of the planned duology THE THREE MUSKETEERS: D'ARTAGNAN and then THE THREE MUSKETEERS: MILADY in December next year, Pathe has teamed up with Disney Plus in making two spin off TV series MILADY: ORIGINS which will follow the beginnings of the elegant vilainess and BLACK MUSKETEER which I announced a few years ago. As Variety reports, both “Milady Origins” and “Black Musketeer,” which will shoot in French, will build on the experience gathered making the $80 million worth historical adventure movie saga based on Alexandre Dumas' work.
Two movie saga has a $80 million production budget
Judith Havas and Simon Jablonka are co-creating “Milady Origins” while Thomas Mansuy and Mathieu Leblanc are co-creating “Black Musketeer”!
3 MUSKETEERS: D'ARTAGNAN will,
meanwhile, follow D'Artagnan (Francois Civil), a spirited young Gascon,
who is left for dead after trying to save a young woman from being
The movies will be followed by two spin off TV series
kidnapped. When he arrives in Paris, he tries by all means to find his
attackers. He is unaware that his quest will lead him to the heart of a
real war
Vicki Krieps plays French queen Anne in the movies
where the future of France is at stake. Allied with Athos
(Vincent Cassel), Porthos (Pio Marmai), and Aramis (Romain Duris), three
musketeers of
First look at Eva Green as Milady da Winter in the movie saga
the King (Louis Garrel) with a dangerous temerity,
D'Artagnan faces the dark machinations of the Cardinal of Richelieu
(Eric Ruf). But it is when he
Vincent Cassel's Athos and Milady in one of the scenes of the movie
falls madly in love with Constance
Bonacieux (Lyna Khoudri), the Queen's (Vicki Krieps) confidante, that
d'Artagnan truly puts himself in danger. For it is this passion that
leads him into the wake of the one who becomes his mortal enemy: Milady
de Winter (Eva Green).
Most glorious of news, people! Our favourite movie studio Pathe is launching its TV branch and has already set ambitious first projects. To be headed by Aude Albano who gave us Versailles, their first series will mostly
Pathe will hire famous directors for these shows
include large scale period drama revolving around iconic French figures, as Variety reports. Jean François Richet is already preparing for them a series on NAPOLEON, the first episode has apparently already been written with the help of Thierry Lentz, who heads the Napoleon Foundation in Paris and has written several books about him. Meanwhile, Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de la Patelliere (who are also behind Pathé’ $73 million two part movie adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ classic novel The Three Musketeers) are creating THE BLACK MUSKETEER series inspired by the epic true story of the first Black Musketeer in French history, Louis Aniaba. The show will follow the adventures of this lesser known, yet truly heroic character who will be also be portrayed in the two-part film adaptation with Vincent Cassel, Romain Duris and Eva Green. Next two years Pathe plans to produce several upscale series of high quality.
SETTLERS SF TRAILER
WITH JONNY LEE MILLER
First, rather dynamic trailer has been released for science fiction thriller SETTLERS out in theatres in video on demand from July 23rd
Settlers are out this July!
following mankind's earliest settlers on the Martian frontier who do what they must to survive the cosmic elements and one another. The story is set on a remote homestead on the Martian frontier, following a refugee family from Earth that clings to hope for a better life. When strangers appear in the surrounding hills and attempt to run them off, nine year old Remmy (Brooklynn Prince) is faced with the desperate reality her mother (Sofia Boutella) and father (Jonny Lee Miller) have tried so hard to keep from her. Wyatt Rockeller's first movie, shot in South Africa, also stars Ismael Cruz Córdova as the main villain. Check out the revealing trailer below and tell us what you think.
it is this passion that
leads him into the wake of the one who becomes his mortal enemy: Milady
de Winter (Eva Green).
it is this passion that
leads him into the wake of the one who becomes his mortal enemy: Milady
de Winter (Eva Green).
