The thing about villains is that villains always have their own logic, and they don’t necessarily see themselves as villains.
ADRIAN HODGESI didn’t want to do that. But what I did want to do was have a real look at the adventure genre because I thought it was ripe for reinvention.
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It’s a great genre because you can do a lot. Sometimes in thrillers, you can really explore things, and it’s the same in this genre.
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In the very beginning, she’s using him in a pretty cynical way.
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Milady is, in one sense, a villain because she does bad things.
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Richelieu was a great statesman, and like all great statesman, he was a very ruthless man.
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The BBC came to me and they wanted to adapt the book [Three Musketeers] again, in the straightforward way, and I said no to that.
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When she gets to know him, she sees qualities in him that she recognizes and it’s almost like trying to remake the past, but of course, it doesn’t work.
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I always want the action to be witty. I don’t want it to be merely routine.
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I want to make sure people are constantly surprised and interested.
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But you need them to also have that sense of fun and that sense of movement and that ability to get the actors to really respond to the material in the way that you want them to. It’s a very big thing.
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You have to make that judgement yourself, and that’s partly where the casting director is so good. It was that blend that we were looking for.
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In the book, D’Artagnan doesn’t actually become an official Musketeer until quite near the end.
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It’s not fundamentally different to any other genre, that action is a particular thing.
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One of the problems of this genre is that there are cliches everywhere, and you’ve got to be careful and watch out.
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On a simple level, you need directors who are good at action and can choreograph an action scene
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Our rule with cliches is to either gently acknowledge them and make fun of them, or do something else.
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