The director, who had already announced this project a decade ago, confirmed this Tuesday in Berlin to be in full preparation of a mini-series on Napoleon.
Haloed by the critical success of The Fabelmans, Steven Spielberg is already preparing the sequel. The director in the running for the Oscars has just revealed at the Berlin festival, in a press conference, that he was going to make a mini-series.
This unique project, a first in its career, is a highly anticipated project, which Spielberg announced a decade ago: an evocation of the life of Napoleon Bonaparte inspired by a screenplay by Stanley Kubrick.
“We’re putting together a huge production for HBO inspired by the original script. Napoleon by Kubrick. We’re developing it as a seven-part miniseries,” Spielberg said in Berlin.
This project, as legendary as it is cursed, is an epic fresco that the director ofClockwork Orange was to shoot in the 1970s, before being forced to abandon it for budgetary reasons.
Kubrick had worked for two years in the 1970s on this colossal project. The results of his research had been compiled in a book published by Taschen editions.
Spielberg is preparing this miniseries with Kubrick’s widow, Christiane Kubrick, and her brother, producer Jan Harlan. The filmmaker previously directed an unfinished Kubrick project in 2001: AI Artificial intelligence.
Steven Spielberg hasn’t announced the cast of this miniseries yet. Napoleon, nor a release date. Ridley Scott is finishing a biopic on the French emperor with Joaquin Phoenix in the lead role. Expected release this year.
Steven Spielberg is also developing a new version of Bullitt. The director has already found the actor to succeed Steve McQueen, who made the taciturn San Francisco policeman Bradley Cooper into legend.
