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.
ADRIAN HODGESIt’s not fundamentally different to any other genre, that action is a particular thing.
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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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In the very beginning, she’s using him in a pretty cynical way.
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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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It’s a great genre because you can do a lot. Sometimes in thrillers, you can really explore things, and it’s the same in this genre.
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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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I want to make sure people are constantly surprised and interested.
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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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They’re classic themes, which is why I think it’s such a great story to look at again.
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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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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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Richelieu was a great statesman, and like all great statesman, he was a very ruthless man.
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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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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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