Liman might go for Musketeers

Mr. & Mrs. Smith and Jumper helmer Doug Liman might be leaping over to The Three Musketeers director’s chair if all goes right in negotiations between him and the big wigs at Warner Bros Pictures. The picture is already being produced by Lionel Wigram, who recently produced Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince and Sherlock Holmes.

Putting together the script is scribe Peter Straughan, who’s previous credits include How to Lose Friends & Alienate People and The Men Who Stare at Goats. The story, based off the novel by Alexandre Dumas, is about a young man named D’Artagnan as he joins forces with three veteran and disgraced French musketeers to stop the villainous Cardinal Richelieu. The Three Musketeers could possibly be put into 3D, as is the fate with every other movie nowadays.

Liman just finished wrapping up production on his latest directorial piece entitled Fair Game. The picture stars Naomi Watts and Sean Penn in a story about Valerie Plame’s status as a CIA agent. It was revealed by White House officials allegedly out to discredit her husband after he wrote a 2003 New York Times op-ed piece saying that the Bush administration had manipulated intelligence about weapons of mass destruction to justify the invasion of Iraq.

Melissa Molina

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