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 HODGESThe 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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In the very beginning, she’s using him in a pretty cynical way.
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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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Richelieu was a great statesman, and like all great statesman, he was a very ruthless man.
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You have to make that judgement yourself, and that’s partly where the casting director is so good. It was that blend that we were looking for.
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It’s not fundamentally different to any other genre, that action is a particular 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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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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Richelieu is not a villain, in his own mind. He’s doing what he needs to do.
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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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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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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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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 want to make sure people are constantly surprised and interested.
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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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