Everything we know about Napoleon, the series Steven Spielberg is bringing to HBO Max

Steven Spielberg Occur in Berlin Film Festival 2023where he got Honorary Golden Bearabout your next job. It comes to NapoleonTV series by HBO This part of the project has begun Stanley Kubrick decades ago. Also implicated in this title is the widow and son-in-law of the director, who died in 1999.

And the American director announced: “With cooperation Christian Kubrick And Jean HarlanWe’re going to put together a great production of… HBO Based on the original text by Stanley. We are working on Napoleon as a seven-part series.

According to deadline, the “biography” of Napoleon Bonaparte It was an ambitious project Stanley Kubrick He was planning to shoot after a success 2001: A Space Odyssey. The director did extensive research on this historical figure and wanted to shoot the film in France, the United Kingdom and Romania with 40,000 extras as soldiers. became so considered Jack Nicholson also David Hemmings He will star in the movie, While Audrey Hepburn will play JosephineFrench leader’s wife.

The project was abandoned due to its high cost and also due to the commercial failure of Waterloo And war and peacel Sergey Bondarchuk, on time. It is believed that Kubrick He reused part of his research to develop Barry Lyndon in 1975.

Steven Spielberg have participated in Napoleon since 2013, with the intention of turning the title into a miniseries Must Arrive HBO Max In the future. In 2016 it was announced Cary Fukunaga (real detective) to be a production manager.

The movie that united Spielberg and Kubrick

boss Fablemans I have previously collected unfinished work from Stanley Kubrick. He acquired the rights to the future story Super games last all summerl Brian Aldissand has been adapting it for more than 20 years. However, in 1995 he ceded the project to L.N Spielbergwith whom he formed the film AI artificial intelligence.