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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.

Adrian Hodges

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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Always Big Challenge Director People Talking
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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Ability Actor Big Fun Material Movement Need Respond Sense Thing
Being able to do action sounds like it should be straightforward, but it really isn’t.
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Able Action Like Really Sound Straightforward
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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Absolutely Cruel Mind Own Right
The thing about villains is that villains always have their own logic, and they don’t necessarily see themselves as villains.
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Logic Mind Necessarily Need Own Themselves Villian
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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Adventure Book Genre Real Reinvention
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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Clinch Doe Everywhere Fun Genre Problem
Our rule with cliches is to either gently acknowledge them and make fun of them, or do something else.
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Acknowledge Cliches Either Gently Make Something
In the book, D’Artagnan doesn’t actually become an official Musketeer until quite near the end.
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Actually Become Book Doe End Giving Musketeer Near Official Quite Until
Richelieu was a great statesman, and like all great statesman, he was a very ruthless man.
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Doe Great Man Mind Ruthless Stateman
But when he finally does make it, they’re not going to make it easy for him. That never changes.
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Change Easy Finally Going Make never
Richelieu is not a villain, in his own mind. He’s doing what he needs to do.
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Doing Mind Need Own People Villian
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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Auditioning Chemistry Fair Few Going Judgement People Room Thinking Together Work
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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Couse Know Past Qualities Recognize Remake Work
I think there’s an element in Milady where she sees her own innocence in D’Artagnan.
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Cynical Element Innocense Milady Past Thinking
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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Fun Lot Simple Wanted

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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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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