|  PETER HYAMS:
"I began to look at all the
Hong Kong movies and found them to be amazingly theatrical and quite exciting,
and almost anti-realistic. I've seen a lot of swashbuckling movies, which I
found to be historically accurate, and not always that exciting. I thought I
could take both and put them together - this is not a Hong Kong movie, this is
not your father's Musketeer movie. I thought that we could come up with
something that nobody had ever seen before."
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JUSTIN CHAMBERS (D'Artagnan):
"I never watched the other
versions of The Three Musketeers because I didn't want to go with any
preconceived ideas. But I read the Dumas book, as this story is loosely based
on that. You've got D'Artagnan and the three other musketeers, but it's a new
way of telling the classic tale, and that's what makes this so
interesting."
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XIN-XIN XIONG:
"I was not surprised
when they came to me (to choreograph the fight scenes) because people are
people, whether they are from the West or the East, and when you have a sword
in your hand you fight and kill your enemy. For many years I've been
choreographing action scenes, and I always wanted to put my ideas into American
movies and maybe do something new - a breath of fresh air."
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TIM
ROTH (Febre):
"What Xin-Xin and his
group do is incredible. We would do a bit of the fight and step away and let
them do their stuff. I mean, with the fight on the ladders - you wouldn't get
me up there, no chance! These guys are acrobats and martial arts experts and
they're really sure-footed. That stuff was truly dangerous. So they had a
prosthetic of my face on one of the stunt men."
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MENA SUVARI (Francesca):
"I just loved being a part of
a period film, which I'd never done before. When I put on the costume, I felt
like the character in that time. The women are really strong in this film which
I loved, so Francesca is not just the pretty face, she's got an attitude and
she doesn't take too much, which I really liked because it's very different
from a lot of period films that you see."
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