Spyglass Entertainment / The Count of Monte Cristo

         Based on the classic Alexandre Dumas novel, THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO is a classic story of an innocent man wrongly but deliberately imprisoned and his brilliant strategy for revenge against those who betrayed him.

         Dashing young sailor Edmond Dantes (JIM CAVIEZEL) is an honest young man whose peaceful life and plans to marry the beautiful Mercedes (DAGMARA DOMINCZYK) are abruptly shattered when his best friend Fernand (GUY PEARCE), who wants Mercedes for himself, deceives him. Unlawfully sentenced to the infamous island prison of Chateau D’If, Edmond is trapped in a nightmare that lasts for thirteen years.

         Haunted by the baffling course his life has taken, over time everything he ever believed about right and wrong is abandoned and replaced by all-consuming thoughts of vengeance against those who betrayed him. With the help of an equally innocent fellow inmate and priest (RICHARD HARRIS), Dantes plots and succeeds in his mission to escape from prison, whereupon he transforms himself into the mysterious and wealthy Count of Monte Cristo.

         With cunning ruthlessness, he cleverly insinuates himself into the French nobility and systematically destroys the men who manipulated and enslaved him. Kevin Reynolds (ROBIN HOOD) directs with Jim Caviezel (FREQUENCY) and Guy Pearce (MEMENTO, RULES OF ENGAGEMENT) starring.