BOURNE IDENTITY director Doug Liman is in talks to helm Warner Bros.’s adaptation of THE THREE MUSKETEERS, reports HEAT VISION. WB is going full steam ahead trying to beat Summit Ent.’s Paul W.S. Anderson’s version of the Alexandre Dumas tale.

Lionel Wigram is the producer and Peter Straughan (THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS) adapted the book, which follows young D'Artagnan as he teams with three disgrace musketeers to thwart the plans of dastardly Cardinal Richelieu.