The upcoming drama The Musketeers has found its stars. BBC America announced Luke Pasqualino will play D’Artagnan, Tom Burke is Athos, Santiago Cabrera is Aramis, and Howard Charles is Porthos in the series which will start filming this month and will premiere in 2014.
This version of The Musketeers is a contemporary take on the classic Alexandre Dumas story. The 10-part series also features Peter Capaldi, Tamla Kari, Maimie McCoy, and Hugo Speer.
“I’m thrilled to be working with such a dynamic, talented, and attractive ensemble cast on our new version of The Musketeers,” said series creator Adrian Hodges. “This series is all about passion, romance, heroism, and action, and I can’t think of a better group of actors to embody those diverse qualities. I’m thrilled by their ability and commitment and honored they’ve chosen to come on board to help us create what we hope will be our modern and original take on this great story and its classic characters.”
The Details: Set on the streets of seventeenth-century Paris, where law and order is more an idea than reality, the series follows Musketeers Athos, Aramis, and Porthos. They are far more than King Louis XIII’s personal bodyguards. They stand resolutely for social justice, for honor, for valor, for love – and for the thrill of it.
D’Artagnan, a skilled fighter from rural Gascony, meets the three Musketeers while on a mission to right the wrong of his father’s death. Although he meets the men in unfortunate circumstances, he finds kindred spirits in the other soldiers. Athos, who has rejected his noble roots to become a Musketeer, has a past shrouded in mystery. He quickly befriends D’Artagnan, but is prone to getting in trouble.
Porthos is a larger-than-life character, who has come from humble beginnings to become a soldier in the most elite regiment in the land, finding a family in the other Musketeers. Never short of admirers, Aramis has an effortless charm which leads him in and out of love. Despite this, he is a shrewd pragmatist who is ferocious in battle and commands a key place in the brotherhood.
Constance Bonacieux (Kari) leads a dull but comfortable life married to a cloth merchant, but her life is turned upside down when D’Artagnan tumbles into her life, and she becomes involved with The Musketeers.
Cardinal Richlieu (Capaldi), while striving to achieve his vision of a thoroughly modern France, is a shadowy character who will stop at nothing to achieve his objectives. Milady (McCoy) is the Cardinal’s secret weapon, the most mysterious and beautiful of villains whose motives are often concealed.
The King relies on the advice of The Cardinal, his shrewd wife Queen Anne and also Captain Treville (Speer), the brave and respected commander of The Musketeers who keeps an eye on the soldiers to ensure they stay out of trouble. The series bursts with escapism, adventure and romance and is set to thrill audiences with cracking stories.
