You’re always looking to make it a bit fresh.
ADRIAN HODGESThe 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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I 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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Richelieu is not a villain, in his own mind. He’s doing what he needs to do.
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The concept of being loyal to your friends, to the point where you’d even die for them, is a great subject.
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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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I think there’s an element in Milady where she sees her own innocence in D’Artagnan.
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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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And we’re always talking to the directors about that. It’s a big challenge to find people that can do it.
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It’s not fundamentally different to any other genre, that action is a particular thing.
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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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I always want the action to be witty. I don’t want it to be merely routine.
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Being able to do action sounds like it should be straightforward, but it really isn’t.
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Milady is, in one sense, a villain because she does bad things.
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I want to make sure people are constantly surprised and interested.
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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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And we make quite a big thing about that. I won’t give too much away.
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