THR reports that David Goyer — best known for being a writer on Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy as well as the upcoming Zack Snyder Man of Steel movie — will direct The Count of Monte Cristo for Constantin Films.
The classic Alexandre Dumas tale, which has already seen two films and inspired the ABC TV series Revenge, will still follow the plot of a wrongfully imprisoned young man in 19th century France who escapes to enact vengeance on those who put him there, but will have the stylistic dressings of recent classics-turned-blockbusters Sherlock Holmes and The Three Musketeers.
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