Tangentially: the 2024 version [1] of the movie has been a huge success in France (quite deserved in my opinion), and is about the open in the US.

The imagery of the movie has a definitive "Batman" vibe - sort of "full circle", even though, apparently CoMC was not _really_ an inspiration for the Dark Knight, as the legend went. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_(202...

[2] https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/254769/was-batman-...