The Count of Monte Cristo
Remakes in Hollywood are , by and large , not an unusual matter ; especially with the understanding that , apart from a handful of properties , reimaginings are always on the circuit board not only to entice a younger flick - going multiplication , but obviously as a way of create immense earnings through just the ticket and ware gross sales .
Ben - Hur , the 1959 classic starring Charlton Heston , has an update due out this summer and , along with a telephone number of other films ( both old and new ) is substantiation that nothing is off - limits when it fare to the great Hollywood remaking machine . Recently , afuturistic - set Robin Hood motion-picture show was announcedunder the guise ofRobin Hood : 2058,which go to show that White House are trying to forge new and imaginative ways to rebrand a film or enfranchisement as often as they can .
It ’s therefore no shock to try thatThe Count of Monte Cristois undergo a remake that ’ll see the account modernize under direction of William Eubank ( The Signal ) , as Warner Bros. and Safehouse Pictures move forward with the ambitious task , according toDeadline . Joe Pokaski ( Underground ) will compose the raw picture show , which is calledCount , and is a contemporary relation of the famed Alexandre Dumas novel .
Writer Pokaski is no lightweight , having produced Netflix and Marvel collab seriesDaredevil , as well asHeroes . He also penned a identification number of sequence for each , as well as the newBlake ’s 7TV serial . Safehouse and Warner Bros. ( who are also behind the aforementionedRobin Hoodventure ) are currently in post - production stages of another reiterate - Guy Ritchie’sKnights of the Roundtable : King Arthur , starring Charlie Hunnam , that ’s due out next class .
The lastMonte Cristoadaptation to hit the big screen was in 2002 and starred Jim Caviezel , Guy Pearce , and Richard Harris - it did n’t exactly set the box office alight with a $ 75 million haul from its $ 35 million budget . It ’s therefore good to assume that , because the film tank so badly in a fiscal sense , it was unwise to ( re)attempt the same error again and presently soon after .
Clearly nothing ’s in effect enough for Hollywood , who ask enfranchisement reboots and update film happen not once , twice , but three or four times . Robin Hood , for example , has already been remade on eight separate occasions - admit Errol Flynn’sThe Adventures of Robin Hood , Disney ’s 1973 animation,1991 ’s Kevin Cosnter - starringRobin Hood : Prince of Thieves , and Ridley Scott ’s 2010 effort with Russell Crowe . likewise , Ben - Hur’sbeen redone many time since its first avatar in 1925 ; made most famed in 1959 by Heston and its 11 Oscar profits , soThe Count of Monte Cristo- having received no less than nine photographic film and television adjustment in its lifetime - arguably needed a boost of some kind to lay it apart . Whether a modernized version of this well - have intercourse taradiddle of friendly relationship , betrayal , and revenge is a classic we take bringing up - to - particular date is debatable .
So far , it ’s unclear what the term ' contemporize ' means here . Will it be brought bang up - to - date in present twenty-four hours , or will the cosmopolitan mount remain with the dialogue and approach shot to the story neuter for modern day savor ? Whatever the compositor’s case , as before long as we hear anything we ’ll be the first to let you know .
WithThe Count of Monte Cristoonly just announced , there ’s no release date yet but we ’ll let you know as soon as there is .
Source : Deadline
