a third part of “The Three Musketeers” on the “horizon” 2027, announces the producer of the film Dimitri Rassam

While “The Count of Monte Cristo” is currently in theaters, the producer announces a sequel to “The Three Musketeers”, which he also produces. Dimitri Rassam, guest on the franceinfo morning show, also hopes to “reconnect” with the “young audience” thanks to the Fête du Cinéma, which begins Sunday, June 30.

There will be a third part of Three Musketeers. “We are working on it”declared, Sunday June 30, the producer of the film, Dimitri Rassam, guest of franceinfo on the occasion of the Fête du cinéma. He hopes that the feature film will be released in “the horizon” 2027.

“I find that ‘Twenty Years Later’, the second novel” by Alexandre Dumas “is absolutely extraordinary. So that was always the ambition.”he adds. Dimitri Rassam promises not to “don’t wait 20 years” And “hope to return in a few years with The Three Musketeers”.

In the meantime, he is promoting the film the count of Monte Cristo, a 24th adaptation of the novel by Alexandre Dumas. Released in theaters on Friday, it has already made more than “So 300,000 entries in two days. We are very happy”, rejoices the producer on franceinfo. Dimitri Rassam hopes “make more entries for The Three Musketeers”The first part of the adventure film, dedicated to D’Artagnan, had 3.3 million admissions.

For this, the producer counts “reconquer, reconnect” with the “young audience who were perhaps a little lacking with The Three Musketeers”. He believes that the Cinema Festival, which starts this Sunday until Wednesday, will make them want to go see films in theaters, since tickets cost five euros. This is also why he wanted “bring closer” the launch of the Count of Monte Cristo of this event.

This French film had a very big budget (43 million euros). The cast includes: Anaïs Demoustier, Laurent Lafitte and Pierre Niney in the title role, Edmond Dantès. To be profitable, it must make “more than The Three Musketeers D’Artagnan” but the production “I would like to get 4 million entries, or even a little more”confides Dimitri Rassam.

He did “the bet” to release this film before the summer holidays. “It’s unusual. Normally, French films don’t really come out in the summer. It’s more American blockbusters”he explains. But the strike by Hollywood screenwriters and actors has caused “a hole in the summer” in 2023 and “we said to ourselves that we were going to occupy the land that they abandoned”.