I’ve heard that it’s been optioned for a film but I don’t think it’s in production yet. Either way it could be an amazing film.

Or his dad! His father had a wild career that helped inspire Alexandre's writing for The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers. The man was sold into slavery by his own father (Thomas was the child of a French aristocrat and his Haitian slave) before being bought back and sent to France where he was then treated as an aristocrat. He later went into the military where he was promoted to a General with over 50k troops under him. Later, he was held prisoner for two years after a shipwreck trapped him in Italy and he unfortunately died young after Napoleon took over and passed a bunch of laws that restored slavery and made the integrated schools and mixed race marriages illegal again.

The name is indeed terrible, but I am intrigued. I read The Black Count this summer about Dumas's father and found it absolutely fascinating. Thomas Dumas's life was supposed to have been a big inspiration for his son's writings and so I wonder if they're going to follow the musketeer regiment that had that name or if they're going to play on Dumas's mixed race heritage and have a character of Haitian descent as Thomas Dumas was.

Either way, if anyone is a fan of history books then The Black Count was a good one.