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Roman Polanski read the screenplay by Enrique Urbizu, an adaptation of the Spanish novel ''El Club Dumas'' (''The Club Dumas'', 1993), by Arturo Pérez-Reverte. Impressed with the script, Polanski read the novel, liking it because he "saw so many elements that seemed good for a movie. It was suspenseful, funny, and there were a great number of secondary characters that are tremendously cinematic." Pérez-Reverte's novel, ''El Club Dumas'' features intertwined plots, so Polanski wrote his own adaptation with his usual partner, John Brownjohn (Tess, Pirates and Bitter Moon). They deleted the novel's literary references and a sub-plot about Dean Corso's investigation of an original manuscript of a chapter of ''The Three Musketeers'', and concentrated upon Corso's pursuing the authentic copy of ''The Nine Gates''. | Roman Polanski read the screenplay by Enrique Urbizu, an adaptation of the Spanish novel ''El Club Dumas'' (''The Club Dumas'', 1993), by Arturo Pérez-Reverte. Impressed with the script, Polanski read the novel, liking it because he "saw so many elements that seemed good for a movie. It was suspenseful, funny, and there were a great number of secondary characters that are tremendously cinematic." Pérez-Reverte's novel, ''El Club Dumas'' features intertwined plots, so Polanski wrote his own adaptation with his usual partner, John Brownjohn (''Tess'', ''Pirates'' and ''Bitter Moon''). They deleted the novel's literary references and a sub-plot about Dean Corso's investigation of an original manuscript of a chapter of ''The Three Musketeers'', and concentrated upon Corso's pursuing the authentic copy of ''The Nine Gates''. | ||
Polanski approached the subject skeptically, saying, "I don't believe in the [[occult]]. I don't believe. Period." Yet he enjoyed the genre. "There [are] a great number of clichés of this type in ''The Ninth Gate'', which I tried to turn around a bit. You can make them appear serious on the surface, but you cannot help but laugh at them." The appeal of the film was that it featured "a mystery in which a book is the leading character" and its engravings "are also essential clues." | Polanski approached the subject skeptically, saying, "I don't believe in the [[occult]]. I don't believe. Period." Yet he enjoyed the genre. "There [are] a great number of clichés of this type in ''The Ninth Gate'', which I tried to turn around a bit. You can make them appear serious on the surface, but you cannot help but laugh at them." The appeal of the film was that it featured "a mystery in which a book is the leading character" and its engravings "are also essential clues." | ||