There is also a movie based on the book coming out in Feb 2002 by
Disney Studios. The star,
Jim Caviezel, is an alumn of my high school so he decided it would be cool to take us all to a pre-showing of the movie. I've never read the book so I can't compare, but in the movie he is in
Chateau d'If for 13 years rather than the 20 years mentioned earlier by
Dorian. I don't want to give anything away, but it was a great movie one that I'm certain I'll go see once its out to the general public. The acting was good. Unfortunately since the star was in the audience with us my school felt that it would be appropriate to chear extremely loudly everytime something cool happened so it was hard to hear some of the better parts.
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