The Three Musketeers, a 3D action-oriented take on Alexandre Dumas' enduring serialized novel, arrives in theaters tomorrow, but Summit Entertainment has released the first four and a half minutes of the film online, presumably in an attempt to woo audiences with the movie's action-packed, comic book-style opening scenes. These scenes introduce the title characters, played by Matthew Macfadyen, Luke Evans, and Ray Stevenson, along with cohort Milla Jovovich in her usual role as an ass-kicker, in this case Milady de Winter.
While nobody's expecting Mortal Kombat and Resident Evil director Paul WS Anderson's take on Dumas' swashbucklers to be exactingly faithful to the original text, I'm pretty sure that the book also opened with a scuba-diving ninja armed with steampunk-style weaponry, Aramis basically being Batman, and Porthos hulking out, all in order to raid Leonardo Da Vinci's private vault. That, my friends, was a bit of sarcasm.
To view the extended clip in high definition, head on over to Apple.
Not included in this intro is the story's protagonist D'Artagnan, played here by Logan Lerman of 3:10 to Yuma and Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief. We do see Til Schweiger as Cagliostro, though. Christoph Waltz, who you'll remember as Hans Landa in Inglourious Basterds, plays Cardinal Richelieu, Juno Temple plays a queen, Orlando Bloom is the Duke of Buckingham, and Mads Mikkelsen (the bad guy in Casino Royale) shows up as Rochefort.
The Three Musketeers will be playing in 3D from coast to coast tomorrow, October 21st.
