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Summary
- Academy Award winner Joaquin Phoenix stars as Napoleon Bonaparte in the epic historical film directed by Ridley Scott.
- The movie explores Napoleon’s rise to power and his passionate relationship with Empress Josephine.
- Ridley Scott is working on a director’s cut of the film, which will be about four hours long and will eventually be released on streaming platforms.
Academy Award winner Joaquin Phoenix takes the crown in the latest trailer for Napoleon. Released courtesy of Sony Pictures Entertainment, Napoleon sees Phoenix reunite with Gladiator director Ridley Scott for this historical epic centering on Napoleon Bonaparte and the French leader’s rise to power and his relationship with Empress Joséphine. Check out the newly released trailer for Napoleon below:
You can also check out the official synopsis for Napoleon below, which teases the kind of large-scale filmmaking that Ridley Scott is so adept at.
“Napoleon is a spectacle-filled action epic that details the checkered rise and fall of the iconic French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, played by Oscar winner Joaquin Phoenix. Against a stunning backdrop of large-scale filmmaking orchestrated by legendary director Ridley Scott, the film captures Bonaparte’s relentless journey to power through the prism of his addictive, volatile relationship with his one true love, Josephine, showcasing his visionary military and political tactics against some of the most dynamic practical battle sequences ever filmed.”
Directed and produced by Ridley Scott and written by David Scarpa, the Oscar nominated filmmaker has amassed a stellar cast to bring his passion project to life. Joker star Joaquin Phoenix takes the lead as Napoleon Bonaparte alongside Vanessa Kirby as Empress Joséphine.
The rest of the cast includes Tahar Rahim (A Prophet), Ben Miles (Andor), Ludivine Sagnier (Lupin), Matthew Needham (House of the Dragon), Youssef Kerkour (Home), Phil Cornwell (Man vs. Bee), Edouard Philipponnat (The Runner), Rupert Everett (My Policeman), Ian McNeice (The Sandman), Paul Rhys (A Discovery of Witches), John Hollingworth (The Queen’s Gambit), Gavin Spokes (House of the Dragon), and Mark Bonnar (Operation Mincemeat).
Ridley Scott Is Planning an Epic Napoleon Director’s Cut
While Napoleon sounds more than epic enough to satisfy audiences, Scott is nevertheless working on a director’s cut. A director’s cut that he has revealed will be about four hours long.
“I’m working on it. It was four [hours] 10 [minutes] this morning. And so what will happen is, we’ll screen [the theatrical cut] first with Sony, and then it has its run, and then the perfect thing is that [the director’s cut] goes to streaming, and we have four hours 10 minutes.”
Napoleon is a project that Scott has wanted to make for some time, with the director recently explaining how bringing all the elements together has felt a lot like coordinating a battle.
“I can read all the books in the world on him, but instead, because the film is such a large event, I rely on my very good team. My team has marvelous military costumes like I’ve never seen before. The costumes are mind-blowing, and then I have a military expert for cause-and-effect battle sequences. That’s all coordinated. I plan it, in a funny kind of way, a little bit like a battle. When you do a film like this, you have to have all your department heads edge around the table regularly. We have meetings once a week, and we go page by page. Page one, I have a problem. What’s the problem? And then on to page two. We fly through it like that because everyone’s in the picture and the left hand always knows what the right hand is doing.”
Napoleon is scheduled to be released in theaters on November 22, 2023, by Sony Pictures Releasing, with the historical drama then set to receive a streaming release on Apple TV+ at an as yet undisclosed date.
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