Trivia / The Count of Monte Cristo (2024)

• Dueling Works: There's a Count of Monte Cristo miniseries coming out in 2024, produced by Mediawan and Italy's Rai and starring Sam Claflin as Edmond Dantès, Blake Ritson as Danglars and Jeremy Irons as the Abbott Faria.
• Fake Nationality: Mercedes is Spanish (Catalan) and she's played by the French Anaïs Demoustier.
• Production Posse: The film has the same producers (Dimitri Rassam and Pathé) and writers as 2023's The Three Musketeers, another modern French adaptation of a work by Alexandre Dumas. Patrick Mille has starred in both productions, also.
• Prop Recycling: The French ship L'Etoile du Roy◊ ("The King's Star") was used in the film. It was previously used for 2003's Monsieur N., Horatio Hornblower, Longitude, 2005's To the Ends of the Earth, 2008's Crusoe, Michiel de Ruyter, 2021's La Fortuna and 2023's Napoleon.

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