Does StudioCanal now control Lester's THREE/FOUR MUSKETEERS? (1 Viewer)

[aPhil]

Please, someone tell me that Criterion will one day put out a blu for both of these.

Hey, don’t forget Return of the Musketeers with much of the same cast.
This should be released as a trilogy !!!

 

[aPhil]

I’ll add this from Wikipedia

"The Return of the Musketeers is a 1989 film adaptation loosely based on the novel Twenty Years After (1845) by Alexandre Dumas. It is the third Musketeers film directed by Richard Lester, following 1973's The Three Musketeers and 1974's The Four Musketeers. Like the other two films, the screenplay was written by George MacDonald Fraser."

 

[Stephen_J_H]

I believe Return of the Musketeers is with Universal. I've never seen it, and I'm not sure how I would feel about watching it, given that a horse stunt filmed for it caused us to lose the talented Roy Kinnear.

 

[Dick]

Hey, don’t forget Return of the Musketeers with much of the same cast.
This should be released as a trilogy !!!

I agree, although the third chapter just isn't as involving or funny or thrilling as the first two, which basically cover the original Dumas novel perfectly well. RETURN feels a little weird and perfunctory and incoherent. It was filmed 15 years after the first two, and just hasn't the same comic energy or as good a script. Plus, Roy Kinnear as Planchet died following an accident with his horse during filming and Lester had to do somersaults during filming and editing to cover for this, an effort that was not very successful. The very fine music score is by Jean-Claude Petit and is quite worth a purchase...it's the best element of the picture, in my opinion.