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Leonor Varela plays King Louis' (Leonardo DiCaprio) mistress after Christine. After this movie, Varela was engaged with Billy Zane, DiCaprio's love rival in his previous film, Titanic (1997).
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Each of the four Musketeers are played by actors with different nationalities. Jeremy Irons is English, John Malkovich is American, Gérard Depardieu is French and Gabriel Byrne is Irish.
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Fight arranger William Hobbs had previously worked with three of the Musketeer actors, John Malkovich on Dangerous Liaisons (1988), Gérard Depardieu on Cyrano de Bergerac (1990), and Gabriel Byrne on Excalibur (1981).
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Gérard Depardieu, Anne Parillaud and Judith Godrèche dubbed themselves in the french version.
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First of two movies in which Judith Godrèche and Gérard Depardieu appeared together in 1998. The other was Bimboland (1998). Years later they would work together again in Potiche (2010).
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Some of the filming was done at the Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte, located in Maincy, near Melun, 55 kilometers (34 mi) southeast of Paris. It was built between 1658 and 1661, for Nicolas Fouquet, Marquis de Belle Île, Viscount of Melun and Vaux, the superintendent of finances of Louis XIV. Fouquet celebrated the completion of the château with a most extravagant feast, at which every guest was given a horse. King Louis however felt upstaged by the grandeur of the home, the event and suspecting that such magnificence could only be explained through Fouquet's pilfering the royal treasury, had d'Artagnan arrest Fouquet. d'Artagnan was assigned to guard him for four years until Fouquet was sentenced to life imprisonment. Soon after this, d'Artagnan was promoted to captain-lieutenant of the Musketeers.
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The character D'Artagnan also appears in the play Cyrano de Bergerac (1990), which has also been filmed with Gérard Depardieu.
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Alexandre Dumas, the author of the book for which this is based, adapted his novel on a historical account of a mysterious prisoner in the Bastille who was forced to wear a leather mask on special occasions for the two years between his imprisonment and subsequent death. The idea that he was a royal lookalike comes from a jest made by the historian Voltaire in the mid 18th century, about 70 years after the historical events.
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Although Louis XIV, who was a real king, is a prominently featured character in the movie, the closing credits state that all characters are fictitious. This statement involves a loophole common to movies of this nature. The film portrayal diverges considerably from authentic descriptions of the real person, so the character is fictitious in the sense that the words and actions of the character are not claimed to be things that the real person said and did.
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Judith Godrèche had worked previously in other period dramas set in the french court: Beaumarchais the Scoundrel (1996) and Ridicule (1996).
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Alexandre Dumas's novel The Vicomte of Braggelone, on which this film is based, has also been filmed as The Fifth Musketeer (1979). which featured José Ferrer, who preceded Gérard Depardieu as Cyrano de Bergerac (1950).
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Anthony Hopkins was the first choice of Randall Wallace to play Aramis. Though he turned it down due to filming commitments with The Mask of Zorro (1998). Sam Neill and Alan Rickman were also considered for the role before Jeremy Irons accepted the part.
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One of two 1998 movies with the same title based on the same novel. The other was The Face of Alexandre Dumas: The Man in the Iron Mask (1998).
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Kevin Kline passed on the opportunity to play Athos.
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This is the third in a trilogy of the Alexandre Dumas novels about the adventures of Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, which also include 'The 3 Musketeers' and 'Twenty Years After'.
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The film cast includes two Oscar winners: Leonardo DiCaprio and Jeremy Irons; and two Oscar nominees: John Malkovich and Gérard Depardieu.
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Although the book is often published under the title The Man in the Iron Mask, Philippe is not made to wear the mask throughout the book. Though he is imprisoned in the Bastille at the start, it is only after the failed attempt to supplant Louis with him that Louis gives the order to have his face covered.
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Leonardo DiCaprio's mask was made out of polystyrene.
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In the movie, Athos has a son named Raoul who falls in love with a girl named Christine. The same names as the lovers in Gaston Leroux's "The Phantom of The Opera."
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