But when he finally does make it, they’re not going to make it easy for him. That never changes.
ADRIAN HODGESI always want the action to be witty. I don’t want it to be merely routine.
More Adrian Hodges Quotes
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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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In the book, D’Artagnan doesn’t actually become an official Musketeer until quite near the end.
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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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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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Milady is, in one sense, a villain because she does bad things.
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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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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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It’s not fundamentally different to any other genre, that action is a particular thing.
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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 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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Richelieu is not a villain, in his own mind. He’s doing what he needs to do.
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And we make quite a big thing about that. I won’t give too much away.
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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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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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