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Malkovich invests the icon with confidence and sexuality, like a disco remix of his seductive Vicomte de Valmont from “Dangerous Liaisons.”

Laclos' epistolary novel spins a web of decadent self-involvement and class warfare through the exchange of letters between the Marquise de Merteuil, a wealthy widow, and her former lover Vicomte de Valmont.

“Dangerous Liaisons,” a decadent new drama on Starz, is about younger versions of the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont.

And the contestants are the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont, arguably literature’s most poisoned and poisonous power couple.

The new TV series sees the passionate love affair of protagonists Marquise de Merteuil and Vicomte de Valmont turn sour in pre-revolutionary Paris.