I always want the action to be witty. I don’t want it to be merely routine.
ADRIAN HODGESThere 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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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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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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Milady is, in one sense, a villain because she does bad things.
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And we make quite a big thing about that. I won’t give too much away.
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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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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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In the book, D’Artagnan doesn’t actually become an official Musketeer until quite near the end.
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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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They’re classic themes, which is why I think it’s such a great story to look at again.
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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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I think there’s an element in Milady where she sees her own innocence in D’Artagnan.
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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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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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Being able to do action sounds like it should be straightforward, but it really isn’t.
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