Ridley Scott Has a 4+ Hour Cut of NAPOLEON That He Is Looking to Release on Streaming

Director Ridley Scott not too long ago supplied an replace on his historic epic Napoleon, which he’s at the moment within the center of enhancing. During an interview with Total Film, the filmmaker revealed that he has a 4 hour and 10 minute lower of the movie that he’s trying to finally launch on streaming. When requested about how the post-production course of goes, he mentioned:

“I’m working on it. It was four [hours] 10 [minutes] this morning, and so what will happen is, we’ll screen [the theatrical cut] first with Sony, and then it has its run, and then the perfect thing is that [the director’s cut] goes to streaming, and we have four hours 10 minutes.”

Scott isn’t any stranger to director’s cuts of the movies that he’s made, so I suppose it is sensible that he’d have a 4 hour lower of Napolean that he’d need to launch. The director additionally talked about how he managed to shoot the movie in simply 62 days, which included the staging of six epic battle sequences. He mentioned:

“Every scene is geometry. By having 11 to 14 cameras, we shot Napoleon in 62 days. I’m doing Gladiator 2 now in 54 days, because I’m not doing 50 takes with one camera, on one shot, and then turning around.”

Napoleon is described as “a spectacle-filled action epic that details the checkered rise and fall of the iconic French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte (Joaquin Phoenix)” The movie “captures Bonaparte’s relentless journey to power through the prism of his addictive, volatile relationship with his one true love, Josephine (Vanessa Kirby), showcasing his visionary military and political tactics against some of the most dynamic practical battle sequences ever filmed.”

The film “captures Napoleon’s famous battles, relentless ambition and astounding strategic mind as an extraordinary military leader and war visionary.” The film additionally stars Tahar Rahim, Ben Miles, Ludivine Sagnier, and Rupert Everett.