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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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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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In the very beginning, she’s using him in a pretty cynical way.
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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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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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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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But when he finally does make it, they’re not going to make it easy for him. That never changes.
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He’s not cruel. He just does what he has to do. And in his own mind, he’s absolutely right.
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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 thing about villains is that villains always have their own logic, and they don’t necessarily see themselves as villains.
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I want to make sure people are constantly surprised and interested.
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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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Being able to do action sounds like it should be straightforward, but it really isn’t.
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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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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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I think there’s an element in Milady where she sees her own innocence in D’Artagnan.
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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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