Many years ago, legendary film maker Stanley Kubrick set out to create a film about the legendary emperor Napoleon. Unfortunately, the failure of "The Battle of Waterloo" and massive budget that Kubrick required forced him to abandon the project and he was never able to complete it. Steven Spielberg seems intent on finishing Kubrick's project and will produce it as a television series.
"I've been developing Stanley Kubrick's screenplay, for a miniseries not for a motion picture, about the life of Napoleon," Spielberg recently told the French TV network Canal+ regarding the project.
According to Deadline.com, "Kubrick left behind extensive research archives - location photos, notes and boxes of other details which provided a book on the subject. But studios balked at the expensive project. "The project has been dubbed "one of the best movies never made."
The Academy Award winning Spielberg has produced several projects for television, including "Falling Skies," "Terra Nova," "Smash," "The River," "The Pacific," "Band of Brothers." He is also working on an adaptation of Stephen King's "Under The Dome" for CBS.
Kubrick and Spielberg met while the former was directing "The Shining" and the latter was engaged with "Indiana Jones." The two eventually collaborated on 2001's A.I.: Artificial Intelligence.
There is no news on which network will broadcast the series, but Crave Online hints at HBO and TNT as potential partners.
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