Napoleon
When it comes to legendary movie projects that were never in reality made , Stanley Kubrick’sNapoleongoes near the top of the list . Kubrick wrote the script in 1961 and did a large amount of pre - production work on the project in the late 1960s , fall out the release of2001 : A Space Odyssey . But due to cost concerns by studio apartment MGM , the motion picture fell apart .
Kubrick never returned to the labor , and he died in 1999 . But it has since taken on the air of caption , becoming the matter of a Scripture calledThe Greatest Movie Never Madeandthe scriptwas even released online . From meter to time there has been lecture of a revivification of the playscript by a novel movie maker , including a 2013 attempt that would have beendirected by Baz Luhrmannand produced by Steven Spielberg , who previously head another leftover Kubrick projection , 2001’sA.I. : Artificial Intelligence . But that never moved forth to production either .
Now , there ’s once again blab out amongst interested party to make this famously unproduced moving-picture show . This time , it would be in the form of a miniseries for HBO , and withTrue Detectivedirector Cary Fukunaga behind the camera .
According to aTumblrpage give to Kubrick , the belated director ’s longtime executive producer , Jan Harlan , say at a recent Kubrick retrospective in the U.K. thatNapoleon“is going to happen ” on HBO , as a six - hour miniseries manoeuvre by Fukunaga and with a script by David Leland . The project has not been confirm by HBO , nor is there any news about casting or when the project might get afoot . It ’s also unidentified where the vintage script by Kubrick would cease and Leland ’s would commence .
If done right on , this could be spectacular . Anyone who has seen the first season ofTrue Detective(orSin NombreorBeasts of No Nation ) knows that Fukunaga is a special talent , one that could be trusted to get a rendering of Kubrick ’s rummy vision to the screen . The project would also have the benefit of more modern technology than Kubrick ever dream of , as well as the patronage of HBO , which has shown a willingness to expend openhanded money on immense project . An hours - long program , with frequent battle scenes , take in multiple country for a monolithic amount of money ? That sound an awful lot likeGame of Thrones .
Then again , should this project go forward , Fukunaga and HBO will have their workplace veer out for them . Spielberg directingA.I.was one affair – a film maker of roughly adequate stature stepping in to substitute a recently deceased caption . But great as Fukunaga is , he ’ll have vast skid to replete . Even if the HBONapoleonproject is well - received , a quite a little of looker will be left wishing they could have somehow get to see Kubrick ’s version .
At present HBO developingNapoleonis unconfirmed , but Screen Rant will have more information for you as it is made available .
Source : A Stanley Kubrick Tumblr(via : Collider )
