Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon: The Miniseries

[cmiller99]

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/cary-***unaga-talks-direct-hbo-895382

HBO is preparing a miniseries based on Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon script, with Cary ***unaga (True Detective Series 1) in talks to direct; Steven Spielberg is executive producer.



Edit: ***unaga? Seriously, word filter?

 

[rushmore223]

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/cary-***unaga-talks-direct-hbo-895382

HBO is preparing a miniseries based on Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon script, with Cary ***unaga (True Detective Series 1) in talks to direct; Steven Spielberg is executive producer.



Edit: ***unaga? Seriously, word filter?

Serves him right for having a Austin Powersish henchman name.

I guess this means we won't be getting a True Detective Season 3

 

[Dellyboy]

Bun Napoleon, gimme a mini series on Horatio Nelson!

 

[Reinhardt]

Must must see this. Love me some Kubrick (even if it's not Kubrick)

 

[ironwez20]

Hope Pedro makes an appearance.

 

[rushmore223]

Hope Pedro makes an appearance.

I'm ashamed to admit it took me a minute to get that joke!

 

[Biojex]

Kubrick himself couldn't make this work...so someone else is gonna try to make Kubricks work for him?....ok


Look, we got Barry Lyndon out of Kubricks attempt at Napoleon. Isn't that enough?

 

[cmiller99]

Kubrick himself couldn't make this work...so someone else is gonna try to make Kubricks work for him?....ok

Well, it wasn't so much that Kubrick couldn't make it work, its just that none of the studios wanted to make it because big historical movies like that generally weren't making any money in the late 60s. He was planning on revisiting it in the late 80s/early 90s, but never got around to it because he worked on and then gave up on The Aryan Papers, and Eyes Wide Shut took him so long to make that he died on the job.