I want to make sure people are constantly surprised and interested.
ADRIAN HODGESIn the book, D’Artagnan doesn’t actually become an official Musketeer until quite near the end.
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But when he finally does make it, they’re not going to make it easy for him. That never changes.
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It’s not fundamentally different to any other genre, that action is a particular thing.
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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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They’re classic themes, which is why I think it’s such a great story to look at again.
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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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You can use the fun of the genre, but I also really wanted to come at it from the point of view of some really complex characterization.
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You do see a few people and you are thinking of how that chemistry is going to work, but it’s not really fair to put people who are auditioning together in a room.
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Milady is, in one sense, a villain because she does bad things.
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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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The situation that women were in, at the time, was something that Dumas doesn’t really go into, but it’s a great subject to look at.
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And we make quite a big thing about that. I won’t give too much away.
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You’re always looking to make it a bit fresh.
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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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Being able to do action sounds like it should be straightforward, but it really isn’t.
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The thing about villains is that villains always have their own logic, and they don’t necessarily see themselves as villains.
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