Despite his track record of being somewhat of a loose cannon who can’t stick to a budget or shooting schedule to save his life, Warner Bros. have found their man in Doug Liman to direct “The Three Musketeers.”
As we previously reported last month, Liman was in negotiations after being selected from a shortlist of potential directors that included Dave Frankel (“Marley & Me,” “The Devil Wears Prada”). The film, though based on the famous novel by Alexandre Dumas, will probably play fast and loose with the source material as last year’s “Sherlock Holmes” did. Michael Robert Johnson (“Mute”), Peter Straughan (“The Men Who Stare At Goats”) and Bridget O’Connor (“Sixty Six”) penned the screenplay and the film is being fast-tracked for a fall shoot.
The film, which will most likely shoot in 3-D, is rushing to try and beat Paul W.S. Anderson’s “Three Musketeers” film, which is currently set up at Summit, and will also be in 3-d and goes in front of cameras this summer.