Contemporary Count Of Monte Cristo Movie In The Works

The Count of Monte Cristo will be coming back to theatres courtesy of Warner Bros. and Safehouse [...]

By Matthew Aguilar

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The Count of Monte Cristo will be coming back to theatres courtesy of Warner Bros. and Safehouse Pictures.

The new take on the classic story comes courtesy of Director William Eubank (The Signal) and Writer Joe Pokaski (Underground, Daredevil, Heroes) (via Deadline). The project will be produced by Tory Tunnell and Joby Harold, but no release dates or castings have been announced as of yet.

Safehouse Pictures has plenty of experience adapting classic tales into film, as they are prepping both King Arthur, Directed by Guy Ritchie and starring Charlie Hunnam and Jude Law, and Robin Hood, which stars Taron Egerton, Jamie Foxx, and Eve Hewson. As with those properties, this is the most recent in several retellings of the story, with the last one taking place back in 2002.

That version, Directed by Kevin Reynolds and starring Jim Caviezel, Guy Pearce, Henry Cavill, and Richard Harris, was made on a $35 million dollar budget and ended up making $75,395,048 worldwide.

Eubank is coming off of his well-received The Signal, and will also be tackling a new project called TauTona.

The Count of Monte Cristo was originally written by Alexandre Dumas, author of the equally iconic The Three Musketeers. Count of Monte Cristo revolves around a sailor named Edmond Dantes, who is wrongly imprisoned. After getting released he amasses a significant fortune and seeks to take revenge on the people responsible for his 13-year imprisonment.

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