Last year saw a Bille August mini-series based on the famous Alexandre Dumas novel. Jeremy Irons was featured in that.

This new theatrical take stars Pierre Niney of the Yves St. Laurent biopic of a few years back as Le Comte, Edmund Dantes, and was scripted and directed by Alexandre de La Patellière and Matthieu Delaporte, writers of the French thriller “22 Bullets” of a few years back.

It looks as if no expense was spared for this summer release.