Ridley Scott To Direct A Napoleon Film Starring Joaquin Phoenix
Ridley Scott's upcoming Napoleon film currently has the terrible title of Kitbag, and Joaquin Phoenix is attached to play the French emperor.
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Confirmed: Cary Fukunaga In Talks Direct Stanley Kubrick's 'Napoleon' For HBO
Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon is "one of the greatest movies never made," but now it's being turned into an HBO miniseries, possibly directed by Cary Fukunaga.
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Rupert Sanders To Direct 'Napoleon'
Briefly: Napoleon is a name that carries serious weight in the film world, not only because of the French leader's status as a notable general and 11 years as Emperor of the French. His film cachet comes from the Abel Gance film of 1927, which innovated many filmmaking effects and even used a three-projection system…
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Steven Spielberg Developing Stanley Kubrick's Passion Project 'Napoleon' As Mini-Series
Steven Spielberg and Stanley Kubrick are famously linked through the film A.I. Artificial Intelligence, which Kubrick conceived in the '70s, and ultimately passed to Spielberg in the mid '90s. Spielberg only made A.I. in the wake of Kubrick's death. While they had some communication on the project, it wasn't one that could really be called…
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Trivia: Read Stanley Kubrick's Plans For "The Best Movie Ever Made"
One of the more legendary unrealized films is Stanley Kubrick's planned film about Napoleon. The director did an amazing amount of research, eventually claiming to have read five hundred books on the subject. He wrote a script (read it here) and planned to shoot the film on location in France and Romania, with additional work…
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Cool Stuff: The 'Ones That Got Away' Posters
Most filmmakers have projects they want to make but never get around to. Maybe they can't get the funding together, maybe they lose the rights or maybe they pass away. There are famous examples of this all the way through history from Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon and Orson Welles's Don Quixote to newer projects like James…
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