The Palace of Versailles wasn't a film location that was used filming "The Man in the Iron Mask". This film is a 1998 American action drama that was directed, produced and written by Randall Wallace. Those starring include Leonardo DiCaprio in a dual role as the title character and villain, Jeremy Irons as Aramis, John Malkovich as Athos, Gérard Depardieu as Porthos and Gabriel Byrne as D'Artagnan. The picture uses characters from Alexandre Dumas's D'Artagnan Romances and is very loosely adapted from some plot elements of his 1847-1850 novel "The Vicomte de Bragelonne".

"The Man in the Iron Mask" is about an unidentified prisoner who gets arrested in 1669 or 1670 and is subsequently held in a number of French prisons, including the Bastille and the Fortress of Pignerol (modern Pinerolo, Italy). For aging French musketeers, Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and D'Artagnan, during the reign of King Louis XIV, they act to help the man in the iron mask and work to obtain an explanation concerning the big mystery for unidentified prisoner's personal situation.

The film was released through United Artists and received mixed reviews, but it was a great financial success. It grossed $183 million worldwide against a budget of $35 million.

The 2001 American historical drama "The Affair of the Necklace", the 2006 historical drama "Marie Antoinette', and the 2011 fantasy comedy film "Midnight in Paris" are each one a film with filming locations that included the Palace of Versailles.

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