The Man in the Iron Mask: “DiCaprio is a light that shines in every image”

This swashbuckling film will return this evening on TF1 Séries Films.

1660. The famous musketeers separated. Athos has retired to his lands and devotes his time to the education of his son Raoul; Aramis became general of the Jesuits; Porthos languishes while waiting for the opportunity to scrap. Only d’Artagnan remained loyal to the king who made him captain of the musketeers. The king will reunite them again but without wanting to. He has fallen in love with the fiancée of Raoul, the son of Athos, and to get rid of this rival, he sends him to the front, condemning him to certain death. Athos then swears to avenge his son.

While we have just found d’Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis in a The three Musketeers : Milady in the cinema, another free adaptation of the work of Alexandre Dumas will return this evening on television: The Man in the Iron Maskwith Leonardo DiCaprio.

If this swashbuckling film received a mixed reception upon its release, both in France and on the other side of the Atlantic, it was released in the spring of 1998 in full swing. “Leo mania”just after the box full of Titanic at the box office, and attracted millions of spectators to cinemas. With 183 million dollars raised worldwide, it brought 2.2 million curious people to France alone! We are far from the 21 million for James Cameron’s blockbuster, which is still today the biggest hit at the French box office, but it remains a good score, 9th in the actor’s career for the moment (between Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood And The beach).

Moreover, to present his free adaptation of Viscount of Bragelonneby Alexandre Dumas, in Firstits director bet everything on his casting. “It’s a story of men who rediscover their youth and their passions, delivered Randall Wallace to Eric Libiot in the February 1998 issue as a “teasing”. Who have a life behind them but continue to fight for the truth. It is a plot where honor, love and betrayal intertwine. Leonardo DiCaprio is a light that shines in every image, there is an inner fever in him. Gérard Depardieu is a force of nature who possesses humor and great acting intelligence. Jeremy Irons is a dark and luminous actor at the same time who seems constantly at war with himself. John Malkovich is a fierce and caring actor. Gabriel Byrne is a poet and a philosopher.”

With his experience as a screenwriter on Braveheart, this history enthusiast signed here the adaptation of this famous legend, as well as his first production. He has directed other feature films since (We were soldiers, Secretariat And What if heaven existed?between 2002 and 2014), but he remains especially famous for his writing work on Mel Gibson’s films (Bravehearttherefore, but also The passion of Christ And You will not kill), as well as Pearl Harbor, by Michael Bay. He is currently preparing the sequel to the biblical film by the Australian filmmaker, The Passion of the Christ: Resurrection.

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