Greatest Film Never Made?
It should have been an epic endeavour that would have dwarfed his other films in both scale and ambition: Stanley Kubrick’s Napoleon was the great obsession of the director’s career. A three-hour portrait of the emperor and the man, Napoleon was scheduled to go into production right after the release of 2001: A Space Odyssey. The young Jack Nicholson was Kubrick’s choice to play the lead; the director had negotiated the use of a chunk of both the Yugoslav and the Romanian armies — 50,000 soldiers in all. So what happened? Find out here.
