En Garde!

Paul W.S. Anderson has just cast his upcoming 3-D version of the classic tale The Three Musketeers.and it's rather impressive bunch--all the while the pic is keeping the period setting but with a "contemporary feel" says Heat Vision


As The Muskketeers Logan Lerman plays D'Artagnan, Ray Stevenson as Porthos, Luke Evans as Athos and Matthew Macfadyen as Aramis..


Playing the villains are Christoph Waltz ("Inglourious Basterds") as Cardinal Richelieu, Mads Mikkelsen ("Casino Royale") as Rochefort.and Milla Jovovich as Athos' former flame de Winter.

Orlando Bloom is also in negotiations to play the Duke of of Buckingham but hasn't been confirmed yet.

Robert Kulzer Jeremy Bolt - and Anderson will produce.

Shooting on this version kicks off in September, ahead of the Doug Liman-directed version of "Three Musketeers" which is scheduled to begin filming later this Fall.