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Doug Liman is in talks to direct "The Three Musketeers" one of two Musketeer adaptations of the Alexandre Dumas tale says Heat Vision Blog.

Peter Straughan ("The Men Who Stare At Goats") adapted the script following the very familiar story of young D'Artagnan enlisting the help of three disgraced veteran musketeers to stop the duplicitous Cardinal Richelieu.

"Sherlock Holmes" producer Lionel Wigram hopes to do a period-pic but with a modern feel much like the recent Holmes adaptation.

The project is in direct competition with an adaptation that Paul W.S. Anderson is doing.

Both have a release date for next year and both will likely be in 3-D.