Lionel Wigram (who worked on Guy Ritchie’s remake of Sherlock Homes) is producing the film and has hired  Peter Straughan to update the story to appeal to a more contemporary audience.

…and expect this news to result in a Three Musketeers trilogy. Alexandre Dumas told the story in three novels: The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, The Vicomte de Bragalonne.