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This page regroups adaptations of the ''D'Artagnan Romances'' by Creator/AlexandreDumas (''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers'' and its sequels), or works inspired by them across all mediums.
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!!Original Works:

The ''D'Artagnan Romances'', a serialized novel cycle by Creator/AlexandreDumas that includes:
* '''''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers''''' (1844) -- Where it all began, and the one everybody knows (at least by name). A prime example of AdaptationOverdosed[[invoked]], as it has been adapted for the screens since practically the dawn of moviemaking in a wide range of countries.
* '''''Twenty Years After''''' (1845) -- The sequel to ''The Three Musketeers''. Always gets the short end of the stick when it comes to being adapted, as it likely would involve much aging makeup and underage casting. Sometimes, plot elements of it end up attached to adaptations of either of the other two novels, although some series did adapt it either through back-to-back filming and doing away with the twenty years TimeSkip or after waiting a few years.
* '''''The Vicomte of Bragelonne''''' (1847-1850) -- The second sequel, sometimes with the added subtitle ''Ten Years Later''. Pretty much all of its adaptations only retain the ManInTheIronMask subplot (for it's the most memorable part of it, and for the likely reason that the novel alone is composed of either ''three'' {{door stopper}}s or a ''massive'' {{omnibus}} -- it would give ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' a run for its money) and use either ''The Man in the Iron Mask'' or simply ''The Iron Mask'' as title.

!!Adaptations & Derivative Works

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[[folder:Advertising]]
* ''3 Musketeers'' chocolate bar with commercials, most notably a computer-animated late 90s and early 2000s ad campaign featuring three men dressed as the musketeers.
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[[folder:Animation]]
* ''Animation/{{Cossacks}}'' (Ukrainian series) has a 1979 crossover short with the Three Musketeers
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[[index]]
[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* ''Anime/FutureRobotDaltanious'' (1979), a MechaShow loosely based on the story.
* ''Anime/TheThreeMusketeers'' (1987-1989)
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* ''ComicBook/{{The Three Musketeers|2008}}'' (American comics, 2008-2009, Marvel Illustrated)
* ''ComicBook/{{The Three Musketeers|2016}}'' (French comics, 2016, Delcourt)
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[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Three Musketeers|1973}}'' (1973), an Australian film.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Three Musketeers|1974}}'' (1974), aka ''The Glorious Musketeers'', a French-Italian-British film.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Three Musketeers|1986}}'' (1986), a MadeForTV Australian film.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Three Musketeers|1992}}'' (1992), a Japanese-American film.
* ''WesternAnimation/MickeyDonaldGoofyTheThreeMusketeers'' (2004), a DirectToVideo Creator/{{Disney}} film starring WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse, WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck and WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}} as the trio as well as the rest of the WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts characters.
* ''WesternAnimation/BarbieAndTheThreeMusketeers'' (2009), a DirectToVideo film and part of the [[WesternAnimation/{{Barbie}} Barbie CGI film franchise]].
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds|2021}}'' (2021), CGI animated film based on ''WesternAnimation/DogtanianAndTheThreeMuskehounds''.
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* ''Film/{{Musketeers of the Queen}}'' (French short, 1903)
* ''Film/{{The Three Musketeers|1909}}'' (Italian film, 1909)
* ''Film/{{The Three Musketeers|1912}}'' (French film, 1912)
* ''The Three Musketeers'' (French serial in 12 episodes, 1921)
* ''Film/{{The Three Musketeers|1921}}'' (1921), an American film.
** ''Film/TheIronMask'' (1929), sequel to the above
* ''[[Film/TheThreeMustGetTheres The Three Must-Get-Theres]]'' (American film, 1922)
* ''The Three Musketeers'' (French films, 1932)
** ''Part I - The Queen's Diamonds''
** ''Part II - Milady''
* ''Film/{{The Three Musketeers|1933}}'' (American film, 1933)
* ''Film/{{The Three Musketeers|1935}}'' (American film, 1935)
* ''Film/{{The Man in the Iron Mask|1939}}'' (American film, 1939)
* ''Film/{{The Three Musketeers|1939}}'' (American film, 1939)
* ''Film/{{The Three Musketeers|1942}}'' (Mexican film, 1942)
* ''The Three Musketeers'' (Argentinian/Uruguayan film, 1946)
* ''Film/{{The Three Musketeers|1948}}'' (American film, 1948)
* ''[[Film/SonOfDArtagnan Son of D'Artagnan]]'' (Italian film, 1950)
* ''[[Film/AtSwordsPoint At Sword's Point]]'' (American film, 1952)
* ''Film/{{The Three Musketeers|1953}}'' (French film, 1953)
* ''The Vicomte of Bragelonne'' (French-Italian film, 1954)
* ''Film/{{Three and a Half Musketeers}}'' (Mexican film, 1957)
* ''[[Film/TheKingsMusketeers The King's Musketeers]]'' (Italian film, 1957)
* ''Film/{{The Three Musketeers|1959}}'' (French TV film, 1959)
* ''Film/{{The Three Musketeers|1961}}'' (French films, 1961)
** ''Part I - The Queen's Diamonds''
** ''Part II - Milady's Revenge''
* ''Film/{{The Iron Mask|1962}}'' (French film, 1962)
* ''[[Film/CyranoAndDArtagnan Cyrano and D'Artagnan]]'' (French-Italian-Spanish film, 1964)
* ''Film/{{The Three Musketeers|1969}}'' (Canadian TV film, 1969)
* ''Film/{{The Three Musketeers|1973}}'' (American-British film trilogy)
** ''The Three Musketeers (The Queen's Diamonds)'' (1973)
** ''The Four Musketeers (Milady's Revenge)'' (1974)
** ''The Return of the Musketeers'' (1989)
* ''Film/{{The Man in the Iron Mask|1977}}'' (American TV film, 1977)
* ''Film/TheFifthMusketeer'' (German-Austrian film, 1979)
* ''Film/{{The Three Musketeers|1993}}'' (American film, 1993)
* ''Film/RevengeOfTheMusketeers'' (French film, 1994)
* ''Film/TheManInTheIronMask'' (American film, 1998)
* ''Film/TheMusketeer'' (American film, 2001)
* ''Film/LaFemmeMusketeer'' (American TV film, 2004)
* ''Film/{{Milady}}'' (French TV film, 2004)
* ''The Return of the Musketeers, or The Treasures of Cardinal Mazarin'' (Russian film, 2009)
* ''Film/{{The Three Musketeers|2011}}'' (international coproduction film, 2011)
* ''The Three Musketeers'' (Russian film, 2013)
* ''The King's Musketeers'' (Italian film, 2018)
** ''All for one, one for all!'' (Italian film, 2020) -- sequel to the above
* ''The Fourth Musketeer'' (British film, 2022)
* ''Film/{{The Three Musketeers|2023 UK}}'' (British film, 2023)
* ''Film/{{The Three Musketeers|2023}}'' (French films, 2023)
** ''Part I: D'Artagnan''
** ''Part II: Milady''
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[[folder:Literature (non-Dumas)]]
* ''Literature/ThreeMusketeers'' by Tiffany Thayer (1939) -- a retelling of Dumas' novels from [[PerspectiveFlip Milady de Winter's point of view]].
* ''Literature/MusketeerSpace'' by Tansy Rayner Roberts (2017) -- a [[GenderFlip gender-flipped]], RecycledInSpace and surprisingly close retelling.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''The Three Musketeers'' (British series, 1966-1967)
* ''[[Series/DArtagnan D'Artagnan]]'' (French-German-Italian miniseries, 1969)
* ''Film/DArtagnanAndThreeMusketeers'' (Soviet mini-series, 1978)
** ''Musketeers Twenty Years After'' (Russian mini-series, 1992)
** ''The Secret of Queen Anne or Musketeers Thirty Years After'' (Russian mini-series, 1993)
* ''D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers'' (co-production miniseries, 2005)
* ''Series/YoungBlades'' (American-Canadian series, 2005)
* ''Series/TheMusketeers'' (British series, 2014-2016)
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[[folder:Theatre]]
* ''Theatre/TheThreeMusketeers'' (2016), a French musical.
* ''Theatre/{{All for One|2017}}'' (2017), a Japanese musical by the Creator/TakarazukaRevue.
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* ''All For One: Régime Diabolique'' (2010)
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''The Three Musketeers'' (1987), an American game for the Commodore 64, Amiga and DOS.
* ''The Three Musketeers'' (2006), a Swedish PC game.
* ''[[VideoGame/TheThreeMusketeersOneForAll The Three Musketeers: One for All!]]'' (Swedish game, Wii, 2009)
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[[folder:Web Videos]]
* ''WebVideo/AllForOne'', a setting update to a modern-day college. The four main characters have been {{gender flip}}ped.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Three Musketeers|1968}}'' (1968-1969), a SaturdayMorningCartoon made by Creator/HannaBarbera.
* ''WesternAnimation/DogtanianAndTheThreeMuskehounds'' (1981): A Spanish-Japanese animated series that has the main characters as anthropomorphic dogs.

* ''WesternAnimation/AlbertTheFifthMusketeer'' (1994), a French-Canadian series that adds a [[ShorterMeansSmarter shorter and smarter]] [[SixthRanger fifth Musketeer]].
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!!Tropes common to many adaptations:

* AdaptationDyeJob: Milady de Winter is a blonde in the novel. She's not always played by blonde actresses. Recent examples include Creator/MillaJovovich and Creator/EvaGreen.
* AdaptationNameChange:
** ''La Femme Musketeer'' (2004) names D'Artagnan "Jacques", while his given name is otherwise Charles.
** The [[Film/TheThreeMusketeers2023 2023 films]] name D'Artagnan's father "Achille", while his actual name is Bertrand (although it is not mentioned in the novel).
* AdaptationalHeroism: The books never shy away from showing that D'artagnan and his three friends, while undeniably brave and loyal, are rather amoral; they'll lie, cheat, steal, blackmail, commit adultery, take advantage of people, sleep around and kill with very little provocation. Adaptations, almost without fail, tone down or even remove their worst behavior and generally make them more straight-up heroic.
* AdaptationalVillainy:
** Rochefort is almost always made an unredeemable villain (he befriends D'Artagnan after losing a duel in the novel).
** The UsefulNotes/CardinalRichelieu also often gets this treatment that makes him plot against King Louis XIII, since in the Dumas novels he's closer to his historical counterpart, that is a ruthless but loyal minister ''working for'' Louis XIII.
%%** So does Richelieu's successor [[UsefulNotes/CardinalMazarin Mazarin]] in some adaptations of the sequels to the first book.
* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: In the book, D'Artagnan is attracted to Constance, the wife of his landlord Bonacieux. Several adaptations reduced or removed Constance's relationship to Bonacieux so that she can be a straightforward LoveInterest and not a SympatheticAdulterer:
** In the 1935 US film, she's Mr. Bonacieux's ward.
** In the [[Film/TheThreeMusketeers1953 1953 French film]], she's Mr. Bonacieux's niece.
** Mr. Bonacieux is outright [[AdaptedOut removed]] in the [[Film/TheThreeMusketeers2023 2023 French films]], making Constance a single woman.
* AdaptedOut:
** The Musketeers' servants (Planchet, Grimaud, Mousqueton and Bazin) very often get the short hand of the stick when it comes to appear in the films or other media. Planchet is [[TheHero D'Artagnan]]'s servant so he's always the most likely to be kept in.
** People who have only watched the films are likely to never have heard of Madame de Chevreuse.
* CharacterTitle: Oftentimes when DividedForAdaptation happens on works adapting the first book, the second part will be titled ''Milady'' or will include her name (''Milady's Revenge'' often comes up too).
* DeathByAdaptation: Rochefort is usually killed in a climatic duel with d'Artagnan in adaptations of the first book. In the book proper, he gets to live, and [[DefeatMeansFriendship winds up friends with d'Artagnan]]. He dies in the sequel, ''Twenty Years After''.
* DemotedToExtra: Planchet (D'Artagnan's {{sidekick}}) gets very little focus in many adaptations, when he's not simply AdaptedOut. The other servants (Grimaud, Mousqueton and Bazin) are all too often much less lucky and don't appear at all in most adaptations.
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation:
** Milady de Winter is executed by [[OffWithHisHead beheading]] after a trial by the Musketeers and the Duke of Buckingham in the novel. She rarely dies this way in adaptations (''The Four Musketeers'' from 1974 is a rare exception, and even so, it's [[GoryDiscretionShot seen from far away]]).
*** In the 1935 film, Milady [[SelfDisposingVillain disposes of herself]] to save the heroes having to kill a woman.
*** In the 1961 duology, Athos skewers her with his sword
*** In the 1993 version she also kills herself, for BetterToDieThanBeKilled reasons; she chooses to jump off a cliff rather than be beheaded.
*** In ''Literature/MusketeerSpace'' (2017), [[GenderFlip Milord]] is taken from the Musketeers and executed by his own people as a traitor, as Athos and d'Artagnan step aside and let it happen.
** Rochefort almost [[AdaptationalVillainy always remains a villain]] in adaptations of the first novel and gets killed by either D'Artagnan or Athos in a DuelToTheDeath in them. He actually dies in the second novel, ''Twenty Years After'', where he's killed by mistake by D'Artagnan (who doesn't know it's him until it's too late) during a riot amidst the Fronde CivilWar.
** In the novel, Constance is poisoned by Milady.
*** In the 1961 duology, she's stabbed in the stomach by Milady with a dagger.
*** In ''Film/RevengeOfTheMusketeers'', she died at some point before the events of the film (which is an alternate take on ''Twenty Years After''), but she lived long enough to have a daughter with D'Artagnan.
*** In the [[Film/TheThreeMusketeers2023 2023 French duology]], she's {{hang|ing Around}}ed [[MurderByMistake by mistake]] in Milady's place at the palace of the Duke of Buckingham.
* {{Flynning}}: Expect unrealistic fencing in ''many'' film, TV, animated and stage adaptations.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade:
** Several adaptations make the UsefulNotes/CardinalRichelieu a self-serving monster who is sometimes even trying to usurp the throne, in stark contrast to his depiction in the original novel, let alone RealLife. He was indeed ruthless (especially against cities with huge Protestant populations that contested some French royal policies), but he definitely ''served'' King UsefulNotes/LouisXIII.
** The same can be said for Richelieu's successor Mazarin for some adaptations of the sequels to the first novel. He's been portrayed quite a couple of times as a SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute to Richelieu with about as much AdaptationalVillainy.
* LostInImitation:
** A number of adaptations make Richelieu the iconic villain and antagonist of the heroes, despite his ambivalent position in the first book and total absence in all following books (he died in the TimeSkip between the first and second book, Mazarin replaced him). Athos and d'Artagnan even ponder if they were wrong in opposing Richelieu a few times in the novels.
** Rochefort's promotion to TheDragon, where in the books, Milady filled the role. It is hard to find a film version in which Rochefort ''doesn't'' get killed by d'Artagnan in a climactic fight, rather than by accident during a riot in the second novel. In the novels, D'Artagnan and Rochefort became friends after dueling each other. He also has no {{eyepatch|Of power}} in the books either, that trend started with Creator/ChristopherLee in the [[Film/TheThreeMusketeers1973 1970s version]].
* ProtagonistTitle:
** A number of works are sometimes simply titled ''D'Artagnan'' and/or ''Milady'', or include their name.
** The original French title of ''Film/RevengeOfTheMusketeers'' translates as ''The Daughter of D'Artagnan''.
** ''WesternAnimation/AlbertTheFifthMusketeer''.
* SelfDisposingVillain: In the 1935 film version, Milady De Winter throws herself off a cliff to her death when her plans are foiled, saving the heroes from being responsible for the death of a woman.
* SparedByTheAdaptation:
** Milady escapes death in the 2011 and [[spoiler:French 2023]] versions.
** In some adaptations, including the 1935 film, Constance gets to live at the end.
** The Duke of Buckingham is also sometimes spared the fate of being assassinated by John Felton (which [[AlternateHistory goes against history]]), such as in the 2023 French version.
* SpinOffspring: Some original stories give children (who are nowhere to be seen in the Dumas canon) to D'Artagnan and/or the other musketeers.
** ''D'Artagnan's Son'' (1950). Whose name is Raoul here.
** ''At Sword's Point'' (1952) features the sons of the Musketeers, and gives a daughter to Athos, named Claire and played by Creator/MaureenOHara.
** ''Film/RevengeOfTheMusketeers'' (1994) gives a daughter to D'Artagnan, Éloïse (played by Creator/SophieMarceau). Her MissingMom is named "Constance", heavily implying it's Constance Bonacieux.
** ''La Femme Musketeer'' (2004) gives D'Artagnan a daughter named Valentine (played by Susie Amy). Creator/MichaelYork reprises his role as D'Artagnan though it is unconnected to [[Film/TheThreeMusketeers1973 his previous films]] in the role.
** ''WesternAnimation/BarbieAndTheThreeMusketeers'' has Corrine, daughter of D'Artagnan and Constance ([[AnimatedActors played by Barbie]]) who seeks to become a Musketeer herself.
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* '''''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers''''' (1844) -- Where it all began, and the one everybody knows. A prime example of AdaptationOverdosed[[invoked]], as it has been adapted for the screens since practically the dawn of moviemaking in a wide range of countries.

This page regroups adaptations of the ''D'Artagnan Romances'' by Creator/AlexandreDumas, or works inspired by them across all mediums.

3 Musketeers chocolate bar with commercials, most notably a computer-animated late 90s and early 2000s ad campaign featuring three men dressed as the musketeers.

** ''D'Artagnan's Son'' (1949). Whose name is Raoul here.

** ''At Sword's Point'' features the sons of the Musketeers - and gives a daughter to Athos, named Claire and played by Creator/MaureenOHara.

** Milady de Winter is executed by [[OffWithHisHead beheading]] in the novel. She rarely dies this way in adaptations (''The Four Musketeers'' from 1974 is a rare exeception, and even so, it's [[GoryDiscretionShot seen from far away]]).

* ''Literature/MusketeerSpace'' by Tansy Rayner Roberts (2017) -- a [[GenderFlip gender-flipped]], RecycledInSpace retelling, originally a web serial.

* ''Literature/MusketeerSpace'' (2017)

** Most movie adaptations make Richelieu the iconic villain and antagonist of the heroes, despite his ambivalent position in the first book and total absence in all following books (he died in the TimeSkip between the first and second book, Mazarin replaced him). Athos and d'Artagnan even ponder if they were wrong in opposing Richelieu a few times.

** A number of works are sometimes simply titled ''D'Artagnan'' or include his name.

** Rochefort almost [[AdaptationalVillainy always remains a villain]] in adaptations of the first novel and gets killed by either D'Artagnan or Athos in a DuelToTheDeath in them. He actually dies in the second novel, ''Twenty Years After'', where he's killed by mistake by D'Artagnan (who doesn't know it's him until it's too late) during a Fronde riot.

*** In the [[Film/TheThreeMusketeers2023 2023 French duology]], she's {{hang|ing Around}}ed [[MurderByMistake by mistake]] in Milady's place.

*** In ''Film/RevengeOfTheMusketeers'', she died at some point before the events of the film (which is an alternate take on ''Twenty Years After''), but she lived long enough to give D'Artagnan a daughter.
*** In the [[Film/TheThreeMusketeers2023 2023 French duology]], she's {{hang|ing Around}}ed by mistake in Milady's place.

** Milady escapes death in the 2011 and French 2023 versions.

* SparedByTheAdaptation: In some adaptations, including the 1935 film, Constance escapes death at the end.

*** Rochefort is almost always made an unredeemable villain (he befriends D'Artagnan after losing a duel in the novel).
** UsefulNotes/CardinalRichelieu also often gets this treatment that makes him work against King Louis XIII, since in the Dumas novels he's closer to his historical counterpart, that is a ruthless but loyal minister working ''for'' Louis XIII.

* AdaptationalVillainy: Rochefort is almost always made an unredeemable villain (he befriends D'Artagnan after losing a duel in the novel).
%%** UsefulNotes/CardinalRichelieu also often gets this treatment.

** The original title of ''Film/RevengeOfTheMusketeers'' usually translates as ''The Daughter of D'Artagnan''.

* ProtagonistTitle: A number of works are somtimes simply titled ''D'Artagnan'' or include his name.

*** In ''Film/RevengeOfTheMusketeers'', she died at some point before the events of the film, but she lived long enough to give D'Artagnan a daughter.

** Rochefort almost [[AdaptationalVillainy always remains a villain]] in adaptations of the first novel and gets killed by either D'Artagnan or another Musketeer in a DuelToTheDeath in them. He actually dies in the second novel, ''Twenty Years After'', where he's killed by mistake by D'Artagnan (who doesn't know it's him until it's too late) during a Fronde riot.

*** In the 1993 version she also does kills herself, for BetterToDieThanBeKilled reasons; she chooses to jump off a cliff rather than be beheaded.

*** In the 1993 version she also does this, for BetterToDieThanBeKilled reasons; she chooses to jump off a cliff rather than be beheaded.

*** In ''Film/RevengeOfTheMusketeers'', she died at some point, but she lived long enough to give D'Artagnan a daughter.

** In the 1935 film, Milady De Winter [[SelfDisposingVillain disposes of herself]] to save the heroes having to kill a woman. In the 1993 version she does this for BetterToDieThanBeKilled reasons; she chooses to jump off a cliff rather than be beheaded.
** Rochefort almost [[AdaptationalVillainy always remains a villain]] in adaptations of the first novel and gets killed by either D'Artagnan or another Musketeer in a DuelToTheDeath in them. He actually dies in the second novel, ''Twenty Years After'', killed by mistake by D'Artagnan (who doesn't know it's him until it's too late) during a Fronde riot.

[[folder:Films -- Live-Action (Theatrical)]]

* ''Film/{{Milady}}'' (French film, 2004)

* AdaptationalVillainy:
** Rochefort is almost always made an unredeemable villain (he befriends D'Artagnan after losing a duel in the novel).
** UsefulNotes/CardinalRichelieu also often gets this treatment.
** So does Richelieu's successor [[UsefulNotes/CardinalMazarin Mazarin]] in some adaptations of the sequels to the first book.

[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]

* ''Milady'' (French miniseries, 2004)

* '''''Twenty Years After''''' (1845) -- The sequel to ''The Three Musketeers''. Always gets the short end of the stick when it comes to being adapted, as it likely would involve much aging makeup and underage casting. Sometimes, plot elements of it end up attached to adaptations of either of the other two novels, although some series did adapt it either through back-to-back filming or after waiting a few years.