Expected, out of competition, at the next Cannes Film Festival, then on Friday June 28 in our cinemas, “The Count of Monte Cristo” carried by Pierre Niney emerges from the shadows in a new trailer.
After the diptych around The Three Musketeers, Mathieu Delaporte and Alexandre De La Patellière continue their exploration of the DCU (Dumas Cinematic Universe), by adapting The Count of Monte Cristo.
Screenwriters of Martin Bourboulon’s films, they are also directors of this one, expected in French cinemas on Friday June 28, after a detour to the 77th Cannes Film Festival, where it will be presented out of competition. One week before the launch of the edition, the feature film is revealed with a new trailer.
After Gérard Depardieu, Louis Jourdan or Jim Caviezel, it is Pierre Niney who plays the hero: Edmond Dantès, victim of a conspiracy and arrested on his wedding day for a crime he did not commit. But the latter manages to escape after fourteen years of captivity and, having become immensely rich, sets out to take revenge on the three men who betrayed him.
Which are played by Laurent Lafitte, Bastien Bouillon and Patrick Mille (already in the casting of The Three Musketeers but in another role since many years separate the two stories), which the trailer shows us well in addition to laying the foundations of the ‘history.
And show the ambition of the film, which will last 2h53 and will look at the opposition between justice and revenge. Themes which are reminiscent of Christopher Nolan’s Batman, and this is perhaps no coincidence, the goal of the directors and screenwriters being to show Dantés as “the first French superhero, who goes from light to shadow, and becomes the incarnation of the masked avenger.”
Which is all the more obvious when we see these shots, in the trailer, of Pierre Niney wearing a large black coat similar to a cape and who is moving in slow motion.
What box office score?
Also counting Anaïs Demoustier, Anamaria Vartolomei, Vassili Schneider, Julien De Saint-Jean and Pierfrancesco Favino in its cast, will The Count of Monte Cristo be able to do better than the two parts of The Three Musketeers, which respectively attracted 3.4 and 2.6 million spectators in theaters?
With a release scheduled for Friday June 28, the feature film will face competition from Euro football, which should have a negative impact on attendance. But he will be able to benefit, in addition to the popularity of Pierre Niney, from the Fête du Cinéma, which will last from June 30 to July 3.