I want to make sure people are constantly surprised and interested.
ADRIAN HODGESThe thing about villains is that villains always have their own logic, and they don’t necessarily see themselves as villains.
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Richelieu was a great statesman, and like all great statesman, he was a very ruthless man.
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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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There was a lot that I wanted it to do, and I wanted it to be fun. It’s fun, but it’s not simple fun.
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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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On a simple level, you need directors who are good at action and can choreograph an action scene
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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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I think there’s an element in Milady where she sees her own innocence in D’Artagnan.
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Milady is, in one sense, a villain because she does bad things.
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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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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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Our rule with cliches is to either gently acknowledge them and make fun of them, or do something else.
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And we make quite a big thing about that. I won’t give too much away.
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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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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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