Now it’s Count of Monte Cristo getting a futuristic update

By Eric Walkuski

Posted 15 years ago

Last Updated on August 5, 2021

Just two days ago, we brought the news that Radar Pictures was doing a space-set retelling of Joseph Conrad’s HEART OF DARKNESS with Peter Cornwell directing. But that’s not the only literary classic set for a sci-fi update, as Variety reports today.

According to the trade, now it’s Alexandre Dumas’ THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO being bestowed with a futuristic setting. Warner Bros. bought the pitch from writer Ian Shorr and set Kevin McCormick’s production company Langley Park (which produced the ARTHUR remake).

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