Pic history holds 'Three'-peat moss

Paul W.S. Anderson sees "The 3 Musketeers" because the perfect brand, a vintage which each generation reaches produce its take. He and the producer Jeremy Bolt credit their determining intro towards the Musketeers to Richard Lester's signature "The 3 Musketeers" and it is follow up "The 4 Musketeers," while more youthful decades may more readily recognize the 1993 Disney version starring Kiefer Sutherland and Charlie Sheen.Actually, numerous versions abound, using the Musketeers already there at the outset of film history, clocking along with their first version in France in 1903. By 1929, Douglas Fairbanks' legendary swashbuckler had been version # 4.The very first seem version was properly in French, "L'ensemble des Trois Mousquetaires" (1932) with Edith Mera as Milady p Winter, charged as "une aventuriere sans foi ni loi" (a godless and lawless adventuress). Perhaps the most harmful -- searching, if little else -- could be Lana Turner's Milady in MGM's 1948 Technicolor extravaganza starring an acrobatic Gene Kelly, with an extremely evil Vincent Cost.Inevitably, our heroes were ripe for comedy. The Ritz Bros. started them back in 1939 for Fox, then a 1942 Mexican comedy starring Cantinflas, as well as in the '70s in france they comedy quartet, some Charlots, provided the laughs for 2 films. Not to mention Mickey, Jesse and Wacky got within their licks.In 1928, the Musketeers mastered Broadway inside a Ziegfeld-created stage musical, which later brought to TV tuners produced by the Russians in 1978 and 1993, and also the Nederlander in 2003.Company, you will find the inevitable '70s hardcore porn version, "The Sex Adventures from the Three Musketeers," from West Germany. So that as if to redress the karmic balance, we now have "Barbie dolls and also the Three Musketeers" (2009), whose fight cry is "Don't wreck havoc on the gown!Inch As D'Artagnan's daughter Corinne, Barbie dolls really wants to get to be the first female musketeer, but hers is just one of 4 distaff Musketeer films.And none of the counts the numerous transpositions from the figures that has to include "The 3 Shaolin Musketeers," the Spaghetti Western adventure "Zorro and also the Three Musketeers," the B-movie Western "The 3 Mesquiteers," Tom and Jerry in "The 2 Mouseketeers" along with a 1933 serial, which morphed our Musketeers towards the French Foreign Legion, starring a youthful John Wayne.And just how about "The Ring from the Musketeers" (1992) that, starring David Hasselhof, Thomas Gottschalk and Cheech Marin, must surely count because the horror version. Which begs the question, where's the Roger Corman sci-fi version? It should be available somewhere. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com