After about half a century within the movie enterprise, Steven Spielberg lastly made his film musical, together with his remake of West Side Story, and instructed his personal life story in The Fabelmans. So how do you high that? How about by lastly making of the best unmade movies in historical past right into a actuality?
Speaking on the Berlin Film Festival this week, Spielberg confirmed that he’s prepping a “large production” based mostly on Stanley Kubrick’s unfilmed screenplay for a Napoleon movie. Rather than a film, although, Spielberg’s model — which is being made with the cooperation of Christiane Kubrick and Jan Harlan — can be a “seven-part limited series.”
Kubrick’s profession was suffering from initiatives he researched for years however by no means truly mounted, however his Napoleon could be the most well-known. Kubrick initially tried a Napoleon movie within the years after 2001: A Space Odyssey, however the undertaking by no means got here collectively. (He ultimately utilized among the analysis he’d completed to the making of Barry Lyndon, which was set round roughly the identical interval in historical past.)
Spielberg had revealed his curiosity in making Kubrick’s Napoleon earlier than, however it now looks as if a a lot firmer actuality. He has clearly labored from Kubrick’s uncooked supplies earlier than, having directed A.I. Artificial Intelligence after Kubrick handed away with out ever turning that script right into a actuality. And Spielberg has labored in TV a number of occasions earlier than, together with on the acclaimed World War II miniseries Band of Brothers.
If Spielberg and HBO get Napoleon off the bottom comparatively quickly, it’ll have to compete with Ridley Scott’s movie about the identical French chief. That model, which stars Joaquin Phoenix within the title function, can be launched later this 12 months via Apple TV+.
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