Orlando Bloom has signed on to join the ensemble cast of Paul W.S. Anderson's "The Three Musketeers." British actor James Corden has also joined the 3D movie, which will shoot late this summer for a summer 2011 release.
Bloom was in early talks at the time when Constantin Film and Impact Pictures were shoring up a good majority of the cast, which includes such names as Logan Lerman, Christoph Waltz and Milla Jovovich.
Bloom will play the Duke of Buckingham, the arch-nemesis to the Musketeers who is described as "so cool that you can chop him into cubes and serve with vodka." (Yes, that is how film people in Hollywood describe characters.)
Corden, who is one of the stars of Brit TV series "Gavin and Stacey" and last year's "Lesbian Vampire Killers," is playing the servant Planchet.
Orlando has been one of my favorite since a long time for his awesome work he does and performs in his movies. Probably the reason why Orlando Bloom is so universally adored among girls and universally hated among boys!
Posted by: anthony morrison | May 24, 2010 at 02:11 AM
Orlando Bloom? As a villain? BWAHAHA! He's about as menacing as my bunny slippers.
Posted by: Hannah | May 24, 2010 at 05:54 AM
Some of you boys are so moronic. Why do you assume that every girl with a taste for movies adores Orlando? His acting skills are below even that of Nicholas Cage’s....and that’s low. Every movie he’s been in has sucked (he ruined Pirates of the Caribbean and Troy for me).
I wouldn’t date/marry/fall in love with him even if he and Tiger Woods were the last men on earth.
Posted by: Lillian | May 24, 2010 at 06:02 AM
I generally enjoy his work and I could see him being good value in this role. To go from the book, the Duke of Buckingham isn't exactly a villain, and isn't all that menacing. BTW the most promising thing about this project is that Andrew Davies is co-writing it.
Posted by: meji | May 24, 2010 at 06:51 AM
That's great it is already confirmed. He is a great actor, I am looking forward to seeing him playing a bad guy in the Three Musketeers, that can be something!
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The Duke? The bad guy is the Cardinal. Great book.
Posted by: Jeff | May 24, 2010 at 10:25 AM
Well hopefully the rest of the cast can act so that Bloom's "performance" can go unnoticed, as most of his work does. Except for those extremely awful movies in which he is the lead.
Posted by: Alex | May 24, 2010 at 12:37 PM
He is a great actor and i have seen in pirates part and his acting is so natural. I love to see his role of a bad guy in the Three Musketeers.
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I'm really happy to see him on the big screen again!I think he's a fantastic actor but He looks unnatural as a bad guy!
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Well said, such a person should be a good sentence, or the future will be more rampant.
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