One of Stanley Kubrick’s lost projects, a biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, has been in the works for several years. Steven Spielberg, who has been involved, now says he is “mounting a big production” and the project will become a seven-part series for HBO
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Kubrick had originally planned the film after the success of 2001 and did extensive research on the French Revolutionary leader. He had planned to film the movie across Europe, in France, the UK and Romania with around 40,000 soldiers. At various stages David Hemmings and Jack Nicholson were set to star as the leader, who reigned between 1804 and 1814 with Audrey Hepburn set as his wife Josephine.War and Peace, the film was abandoned and much of Kubrick’s work went into his 1975 film Barry Lyndon.TrueCary Joji Fukanaga was set as a director in 2016 with David Leland, exec producer of Showtime’sHide Articles
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