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American director Steven Spielberg on February 21, 2023.
CULTURE – A winning trio? Steven Spielberg said on Tuesday February 21 that he was working on a television series adaptation project from an original screenplay by Stanley Kubrick on Napoleon, which has been in his drawers for years.
We “We are in the process of setting up a large production” for a series in seven episodes for the American channel HBO from this script written in 1961, he assured at a press conference in Berlin. Kubrick, who died in 1999, never completed his own Napoleon biopic project.
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Spielberg had already mentioned ten years ago the fact that he was developing for a mini-series this scenario written by the director of 2001: A Space Odyssey et Clockwork Orangeand which has already inspired him AI: Artificial Intelligence (2001). It was following this film that Kubrick would have done his research on Napoleon, according to Deadline.
Kubrick wanted Jack Nicholson and Audrey Hepburn
The American site adds that Stanley Kubrick wanted to film this film in France, the United Kingdom and Romania with 40,000 soldiers. David Hemmings (Blow-Up) et Jack Nicholson (The Shining, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest) would have been considered for the lead role, Audrey Hepburn for Napoleon’s wife, Josephine.
Always according to Deadline, the film never saw the light of day due to the cost of the film War and peace of Sergei Bondarchuk and the failure of Waterloo. Kubrick would then have concentrated on his work Barry Lindon.
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Another monument of cinema, Steven Spielberg is to be presented by the Berlinale with a Golden Bear of honor for his entire career which has changed the history of cinema, Sea teeth To E.T. Passing by Schindler’s List.
“The Fabelmans”, a quasi-autobiographical film
He also returned to the set of The Fabelmanshis quasi-autobiographical film which comes out on Wednesday in France, and tells the story of a child who tries to cope with the separation of his parents, and the parallel birth of the vocation of a filmmaker.
“We had to tell a story with lots of funny moments but also a lot of scenes that were traumatic. Just recreating those scenes was very hard.”he confided.
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“I always wanted to tell the story of my mother, my father and my sister, and this kind of incredible struggle between art and family. I’ve had it in my head all my life, it’s infused into all of my films, all of my films are personal and many are regarding family, but nothing is as personal as ‘The Fabelmans’”.
At 76, Spielberg says to himself “always so excited” through cinema: finding a story to film, “It surpasses everything else in my life, except maybe the birth of a child”he added.
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