We speak to Orlando Bloom, Matthew Macfadyen, Luke Evans and Ray Stevenson.
Watch the video of the interview atLOVEFILM.COM
The new faces of The Three Musketeers sit down for a chat about their swashbuckling costumes. Meanwhile, resident baddie Orlando Bloom reveals what it was like stepping over to the dark side.
This October, the legend comes to life like never before as The Three Musketeers prove that the only way to fight, love and live is all for one and one for all!
In astounding 3D, this explosive, family action-adventure sees Aramis, Porthos, Athos and the spirited D’Artagnan fight against the evil Buckingham’s plot to defend the Queen’s honour and France from the upcoming apocalypse.
With a star-studded cast including the dangerously talented Luke Evans as Aramis (Clash of the Titans), Orlando Bloom as Buckingham (Pirates of the Caribbean) and Ray Stevenson as Porthos (Thor) to name but a few, this gripping adventure is sure to leave audiences in oar this Autumn.
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REVIEW BY LOVEFILM (THREE OUT OF FIVE STARS)
The Three Musketeers have enjoyed various big screen outings over the years...
Most recently was with the dream team of Kiefer Sutherland, Charlie Sheen and Oliver Platt, helping bring justice to pre-Revolutionary France. But that was nearly 20 years ago and this latest 3D take brings the action kicking and screaming into the 21st century. However purists beware, Paul W.S. Anderson’s The Three Musketeers is ‘a’ Three Musketeers movie, not ‘The’ Three Musketeers movie; it has this rather odd dynamic that plays as if the whole thing were based on a steampunk comic of the classic novel.
The Three Musketeers
Matthew MacFadyen, Logan Lerman, Ray Stevenson, Luke Evans Director Paul W.S. Anderson
Genres
Action/Adventure, Romance, Thriller
All the touchstones of the Alexandre Dumas book are here; a young man dreams of following in his father’s footsteps and serving the Crown, he travels to Paris where he meets a trio of former musketeers and they then uncover a plot to unseat the vulnerable King by the conniving Cardinal Richelieu. But that’s where the similarities end....
This incarnation involves heavily armed airships battling in the skies above Paris, Ocean's Eleven style raids on hidden Venetian vaults and Milady rappelling outside the Palace of Versailles thanks to equipment hidden within her corset; previous filmmakers must have skipped those chapters when making their movies.
However for those familiar with Anderson’s previous work, this should come as no great surprise. He’s always been a bit of a Marmite director; critics tend to sneer at his excessive action and very senseless formula but that didn’t stop the likes of Death Race and the Resident Evil series earning a boatload of cash and entertaining plenty of people.
And The Three Musketeers is certainly entertaining. Matthew Macfadyen, Ray Stevenson and Luke Evans work well together as Athos, Porthos and Aramis, each imbuing their character with some individuality while Logan Lerman, who was last seen in Percy Jackson And The Lightening Thief, is enthusiastic as D’Artagnan. Anderson’s regular muse – and wife – Milla Jovovich lends Milady a somewhat mercenary air whilst Orlando Bloom boasts the worst movie hair of 2011 as the rather fey Lord Buckingham. The only disappointment is Christoph Waltz as Richelieu – he lacks the implied menace needed to make the Cardinal a formidable foe. Meanwhile the swordplay is impressive, the admittedly over the top action set pieces deliver and the design work holds the eye.
That said, it would be fair to say that the enormous liberties taken with the original text feel a touch sacrilegious, like drawing glasses and a ‘tache on the Mona Lisa or putting ketchup on caviar. If you’re studying The Three Musketeers at school, don’t watch this thinking you can get away with not the reading the book; any essay you submit based on this Musketeer’s adventure may well raise eyebrows.
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