Napoleon by Stanley Kubrick Ask a group of cinephiles which unrealised film they wish had been finished and their most likely choice will be Stanley Kubrick’s Napoleon. The auteur researched the French emperor for years and intended the biopic to be his immediate follow-up to 2001: A Space Odyssey. Kubrick pursued Jules and Jim star Oskar Werner for Napoleon and Audrey Hepburn for his wife Josephine, but MGM cancelled the project when it ran wildly over budget. In 2013 Steven Spielberg told French TV network Canal+ that he hoped to revive Kubrick’s Napoleon project for a television miniseries, and the latest rumour is that Spielberg would like to commission Baz Luhrmann to direct. (Alamy)
Posted on: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 19:33:14 +0000