Just to poke life into the embers a bit, "Kitbag" has been renamed simply "Napoleon ", and Vanessa Kirby replaces Jodie Comer as Josephine. Information supplied by the 'Fondation Napoleon'.
Keep poking Old Taff, it's only a bit of fun.
Makes me wonder why Josephine is being used - hardly the most significant part of the story.
I have the greatest respect for Stanley Kuberick who went to extreme lengths preparing for his abandoned Napoleon project. That would have looked phenomenal and it's abandonment was a great disappointment to me - then I read the proposed script - dreadful. Why? because he was going to cram every part of Napoleon's career into a two or three hour length. It would have ended up with about ten minutes in Egypt and had dialogue such as ; and I quote;-
Bourrienne - Excuse me General Bonaparte, but I believe this is an extremely urgent matter, requiring your immediate attention.
Napoleon - Come in.
Bourrienne - This despatch has just arrived from Aboukir, marked highest priority. for General Bonaparte's eye's only.
Napoleon - let me see it.
He opens the envelope, reads it and tosses it onto the table
Napoleon - Nelson has engaged Brueys off Aboukir, Brueys is dead and we have lost eleven ships.
Immediately following this is scene 67 which starts-
67. EXT - FRENCH TOWN -DAY , Napoleon rides in an open carriage, waiving.
Gripping isn't it? The rest of the script has great lumps of a narrator's explanation of what happens between scenes.
Spielberg did express some desire to take on Kubrick's project but that seems to have died the death.
I hope Mr Scott can restrain his ambition and restrict himself to a more focused and cover one specific period.
David
I only set out to inform of an upcoming film that I thought would be of general interest. I take no responsibility for what followed, interesting though it was.
