'The Three Musketeers' are All For One More

I don't want go over the entire Rosemary's Baby remake again; you can read all that here. But I do want to reintroduce the thinking that some remakes are best for everyone involved, some films are fine being remade, and some classics should never be touched. The Three Musketeers almost certainly falls in the first category: Remake that movie pronto. Or better yet, forget about the previous films, read the Alexandre Dumas novel again, and give it a completely fresh, Frank Miller-type perspective. That would rule. The point is, there's plenty of room for improvement. Variety broke the news that Millennium Films is adapting the classic story of Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, and there are even hints already that it will become a franchise: "D'Artagnan, the last member of the eventual quartet, will either be introduced later in the first movie or in a second installment." It should be noted that Millennium - like Platinum Dunes with the Rosemary's Baby remake - seem unnaturally interested in reviving the dead. The studio has already propped Rambo back up, and is working on the Conan and Buck Rogers movies, plus a Hercules flick I knew nothing about. I'm surprised someone didn't set the wheels in motion for this earlier. It has the potential to be a great action movie if done correctly, you can either launch three careers or build buzz from bringing three hip, talented guys together, and swordfighting is back in vogue, thanks to the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. If handled the right way, I can't see how this is a bad idea. Frankly, the movie from the 1970s wasn't remarkable, outside of Raquel Welch's cleavage, Man in the Iron Mask was OK but hardly a classic, and I never saw the one with Charlie Sheen from the 1990s although I can't imagine it's filled with greatness, so I think a quality remake can float. Let's just hope Millennium does something unique with it or at least watches the recent remake of Count of Monte Cristo with Guy Pearce; you could do a lot worse that that.