Steven Spielberg is working on a series based on a failed play by Stanley Kubrick. (Reuters)

In 2013, it was rumored that Steven Spielberg would run a script written by Stanley Kubrick on Napoleon Bonaparte, known as his lost film. In this regard, on February 21, 2023, the renowned filmmaker confirmed it and the whole world got involved. It will be a seven-episode limited series for HBO.

Kubrick (the radiance there Clockwork Orange) he wrote the screenplay for Bonaparte in 1961 and it was a project he had thought about for several years, but finally abandoned. There is a related mythical work and it is a 2008 book titled Napoleon by Stanley Kubrick: the greatest film ever made, from the editorial bags.

Steven Spielberg poses with his Best Director and Best Drama Film awards for "The Fabelmans" at the 80th Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, California, United States.  (REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni/File Photo)
Steven Spielberg poses with his Best Director and Best Drama Film awards for ‘The Fabelmans’ at the 80th Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, California, USA. (REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni/File Photo)

What do we know about the failed film on Napoleon

The project centered on the life of Napoleon Bonaparte was one of the most ambitious in 20th century cinema. A work, which according to various sources, “is the work of the influential filmmaker to whom he gave more than thirty years of his life”, revealed The confidential.

We also knew that the French soldier and statesman (Republican general during the French Revolution) obsessed him, since he kept wondering how someone with such a particular intelligence could make so many mistakes when he was at the pinnacle of power. Apparently, “Kubrick’s intention was to revolutionize epic cinema with time travel that no viewer could have imagined,” the statement read. cheetah.

Cover of Taschen's book about Kubrick's failed project.  (Taschen)
Cover of Taschen’s book about Kubrick’s failed project. (Taschen)

The American filmmaker is considered one of the pioneers of the New Hollywood era, as well as one of the most recognized and popular directors in the global film industry. He was behind big productions like Indiana Jones (and the Temple of Doom, The Last Crusade there Kingdom of the Crystal Skull), jurassic park there War of the Worlds, among others. One of his most recent films was The Fabelmans, released in January 2023.

The Fabelmans is known as one of Spielberg’s most treasured stories. It is a semi-biographical drama starring Gabriel LaBelle. as Sammy Fabelman. LaBelle stars as an aspiring director based on the director and screenwriter himself, and is dedicated to the memory of his parents.

"The Fabelmans" It is one of Steven Spielberg's last films.  (Merie Weismiller Wallace/Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment via AP)
“The Fabelmans” is one of Steven Spielberg’s last films. (Merie Weismiller Wallace/Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment via AP)

With the story of Napoleon, it is not the first time that Spielberg has worked with material from Kubrick. In 2001, he used his ideas to Artificial intelligenceanother film that Stanley was unable to make, as his intention was for the lead child role to be played by a real robot, and at the time there was not enough technology to do so.

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