The concept of being loyal to your friends, to the point where you’d even die for them, is a great subject.
ADRIAN HODGESIt’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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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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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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In the book, D’Artagnan doesn’t actually become an official Musketeer until quite near the end.
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In the very beginning, she’s using him in a pretty cynical way.
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It’s not fundamentally different to any other genre, that action is a particular thing.
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I want to make sure people are constantly surprised and interested.
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You’re always looking to make it a bit fresh.
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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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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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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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Richelieu was a great statesman, and like all great statesman, he was a very ruthless man.
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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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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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Milady is, in one sense, a villain because she does bad things.
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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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