Trivia / The Three Musketeers

Specific Entries

Live-Action Films

• The Three Musketeers (1948)
• The Three Musketeers (1953)
• The Three Musketeers (1961)
• The Iron Mask (1962)
• The Three Musketeers (1973)
• The Three Musketeers (1993)
• Revenge of the Musketeers
• The Man in the Iron Mask
• The Musketeer
• Milady
• The Three Musketeers (2011)
• The Three Musketeers (2023)

Live-Action Series

• Young Blades
• The Musketeers

Animation

• Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds
• Albert the Fifth Musketeer

Original Novel:

• Referenced by...: In the episode "Absolute Candor" of Star Trek: Picard, Admiral Picard gives a paper book of The Three Musketeers as a present to a young Elnor, and he reads it to the boy in the evening.
• What Could Have Been: The first drafts were quite different, and Alexandre Dumas didn't turn the story into what it is now until after Auguste Maquet had done historical research - suggesting plot outlines inspired by that. Some characters got dropped and others were only introduced after this.

Adaptations in General

• Adaptation Overdosed: Over 50 film adaptations not counting the many made-for-TV movies, series, miniseries and animation, in many countries at that.
• Dawson Casting: In the first novel, D'Artagnan is 18. More often than not, he's played by someone typically 10 years older or more. Logan Lerman was 19 in the 2011 version, making him the closest/most accurate in age yet.
  • The Three Musketeers (1921): Douglas Fairbanks was 38.
  • The Three Musketeers (1948): Gene Kelly was 36.
  • The Three Musketeers (1953): Georges Marchal was 33.
  • The Three Musketeers (1961): Gérard Barray was 30.
  • The Three Musketeers (1973): Michael York was 31.
  • d'Artagnan And Three Musketeers: Mikhail Boyarksy was over 30. The trope could have been exaggerated, since 40-year-old Vladimir Vysotsky also wanted that part.
  • The Three Musketeers (1993): Chris O'Donnell was 23.
  • The Musketeer: Justin Chambers was 31.
  • The Three Musketeers (2023): François Civil was 30-31.
• Dueling Works: British production house Signature Entertainment released their own mockbuster version of the story (with James Cosmo as the Cardinal Richelieu and a black D'Artagnan) digitally and on DVD in March 2023, just a couple of days before the theatrical release of the first part of the much higher profile and higher budgeted French production.
• Fake Nationality: A given for the majority of non-French adaptations (and even an Italian was cast as Porthos in a French production once).

1935 Film:

• Role Reprise: Nigel De Brulier had already played Cardinal Richelieu in the 1921 adaptation, as well as in The Iron Mask. He would later play him once more in The Man In The Iron Mask.

---