>It’s official: Cary Fukunaga and Steven Spielberg will finish Stanley Kubrick’s Napoleon
>HBO is preparing mini-series based on the director's life-long passion project
>Stanley Kubrick’s life-long passion project Napoleon will finally be realized nearly 50 years after the acclaimed director began working on it. The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed reports that HBO is preparing a mini-series based on Kubrick’s original script. Cary Fukunaga, who first made a name for himself on HBO’s True Detective, has been charged with directing the hire-profile project. Steven Spielberg, who previously expressed interest in helming the film himself, is on board as an executive producer.
>The film revolves around French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and his struggle to bring Europe under his total control during the 19th century. Kubrick began working on a script shortly after completing 2001: A Space Odyssey in 1968. He traveled to France, Britain and Romania, collecting over 17,000 Napoleon-related artifacts. He even planned to use 30,000 members of Romania’s army for vast battle scenes.
>Unfortunately, sky-high costs and other factors delayed the film’s production indefinitely. As a result, Napoleon was infamously dubbed “the greatest film never made.”
>Recently, Kubrick’s family opened his archives to HBO and signed off on the network’s plans to finally complete Napoleon. In addition to Fukunaga, HBO has hired David Leland (The Borgias) to finish Kubrick’s script. Kubrick’s estate will also have a hand in production.
Get fucking hyped
Liam Hall
Hype Level: Infinite
Austin Thompson
I hope they can pull it off. I doubt it though.
When is The Young Pope coming?
Aiden Reyes
This has me hype almost as much as when I heard PTA was doing a Pynchon novel.
Carson Taylor
holy shit /his/ here and this would be really cool if they did it right.
Camden Collins
Im ready bruhs-
Ryan Lee
Its like actual dreams I've had are coming true.
Nicholas Hughes
Hyped as fuck, but why a miniseries?
Landon Davis
is this real life?
Carter Rogers
>mfw
Adrian Anderson
>He traveled to France, Britain and Romania
The sedentary control freak? Bullshit.
Robert Roberts
And we all know how well that turned out.
Elijah Bell
me on the left
Julian Baker
HYPED. Like this is perfect.
Please do a Dune miniseries next HBO
Nathan Bennett
I wonder how much how much SJW revisionism HBO will stick into this one.
>Napoleon was actually a weak male figure head who was advised by his wife while his men where commanded by a African immigrant to France.
Adam Wilson
>Source says Fukunaga is "in talks" to direct
Don't get hype yet.
Hunter Garcia
Why do people want this? I'm even a fan of AI, which Kubrick wanted Spielberg to direct in the first place, but this? Judging from what I know, this is a script that would only be fully realized by Kubrick's sensibilies and grandiose talent. Spielberg will give it the gravity of a historical dramatization, and make weighty schlock.
I was hoping the whole project was scrapped years ago. Barf. Fuck Spielberg, and fuck anyone looking forward to this as if it's "finally happening."
Brayden Roberts
"SJW" shit has never affected anything that was ever going to be good in the first place.
Dylan Cook
Yeah it went great. A fantastic adaptation.
Jaxon Stewart
Hey, remember when AI came out and it was fucking terrible?
>Kubrick HUMANS ARE DOOMED WE'RE ALL TERRIBLE >Spielberg HUMANS ARE GREAT, WE HAVE CHILDLIKE JOY
These two styles are not meant to go together.
Logan Murphy
>Spielberg So it'll be a sappy 7/10 at best.
>Fukunaga And it'll have some good-looking shots, maybe even "foreboding" ones.
Overall, big fucking deal. Kubrick's would've been far superior to this one.
Parker Diaz
what are you on about autist
Dominic Reed
This. Spielberg's liable to put at least one overtly melodramatic scene in it, like in Bridge of Spies when the East Germans trying to defect get shot conveniently in full view of the protag, although the movie was decent overall.
This will in no way carry the intrigue and artfulness that a Kubrick film would. It will carry the intrigue typical of Oscar bait.
Nolan Young
>Kubrick's would've been far superior to this one. Obviously, but seeing as he's dead this will hopefully be better than nothing.
Ayden White
Who do you think they're going to get for Napoleon? Will they go down with the 2000 miniseries route and hire a frenchman to be Napoleon with the zypical ze fweench ascent?
Matthew Diaz
it is meaningless to have the name kubrick attached to this, like it was with AI.
Joshua Gomez
>First AI >Now this Why is Steven Spielberg so obsessed with raping Kubrick's legacy?
Adrian Butler
I would be hype for a Napoleon miniseries regardless
David Morales
Spacey as Napoleon.
Michael Brown
No, let's do like the Hamilton and have the WU WAZ KAANGS AN' SHIT in all the main roles for the sake of equality, even if Josephine nor Napoleon were black themselves
Samuel Diaz
Jean DuJardin would be good if they wanted an actual frenchman
Brody Hughes
Idris Elba, obviously, if they aren't racist nazis.
Nolan Jones
pls don't fuck this up
Sebastian Peterson
Fukanaga will give us a masterpiece if Spielberg doesn't fuck it up.
Dominic Price
>hating spielberg
reddit fuck off
Noah Morgan
>mfw Napoleon is played by a black transexual
Hudson Allen
JJ Abrams should direct. He can make 2 hour plus films feel more like they're 90 minutes long. He's just that good.
Jordan Perez
His films are so insubstantial they actually evaporate before your very eyes, hence why they end up shorter than the runtime.
Adrian Robinson
Spielberg's AI is smarter than people think. It's a pretty depressing film.
But AI was also designed to be an emotionally manipulative fairy tale, covered in, as Kubrick put it, "vaginal jelly." Napoleon is nothing like this. It doesn't belong near Spielberg or any other director for that matter. Let it die a legend.
Matthew Thomas
>miniseries by Spielberg
It's already destined for mediocrity
James Lewis
band of brothers was great
Brandon Adams
I don't hate him. A lot of his movies, especially of late, are just "good" though, nothing more.
Julian Butler
Either before or after Westworld in the fall. So September or December.
Adrian Clark
Fukunaga still has 2 more projects to do before he even begins this one. One for TNT and then the Netflix one with Jonah Hill/Emma Stone next year.
Christian Thompson
>napoleon >hbo
Will he fuck a woman every 5 minutes as it happens in every other HBO series?
Josiah Howard
They'll probably make it men because the French revolutionist were progress.
Jackson Morales
I know this is going to sound crazy but just hear me out...