There’s no time to breathe for Steven Spielberg. While his last movie Fabelmans The Hollywood star director, who has been nominated 7 times for the next Oscars (which will be screened in France this Wednesday) on March 12, is already back at work. Taking place at the currently held Berlinale 2023, the filmmaker announced at a press conference that he is preparing a series dedicated to Napoleon.
The producer plans to adapt an original film script written by Stanley Kubrick, which has not been translated to the big screen, for this biopic of The Emperor of the French for the HBO channel. “We are assembling a large production.“, Steven Spielberg assured when speaking to the press about this new project.”In collaboration with Christiane Kubrick and Jan Harlan, we are preparing a major production for HBO based on Stanley’s original screenplay, Napoleon. We’re working on Napoleon as a limited series of seven episodes.”declared.
Originally planned after success 2001, a space adventurethis movie was abandoned by Kubrick after two major setbacks: commercial failure water loo and the explosion of the adaptation budget War and peace By Sergei Bondarchuk, however, Kubrick had great passions for this biopic about Napoleon. “He did extensive research on the leader of the French Revolution. He planned to shoot the movie in Europe, France, England and Romania with about 40,000 soldiers”detail Deadline.
“At different times, David Hemmings and Jack Nicholson would play the head of state, who ruled from 1804 to 1814, while Audrey Hepburn would play the role of his wife, Josephine.”, mention our American colleagues. Spielberg, who took over this project in 2013, and David Auburn (enthusiasm) to the script and Cary Joji Fukunaga (true detective) to perform.
This project is Kubrick’s second project taken over by Spielberg. “Film AI Artificial Intelligence It started when Kubrick bought the rights to the short story “Super Toys Last All Summer” from Brian Aldiss. He worked on a cure for over 20 years before handing it over to Spielberg in 1995. Eventually, Spielberg directed the movie, which was released in 2001. definite Deadline.
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