Dramatic reconstruction telling the story of Napoleon. Based upon Max Gallo's best-selling novel. Read more
| Starring | Christian Clavier, Isabella Rossellini, Gerard Depardieu, John Malkovich |
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| Director | Yves Simoneau |
| Genres | Action/Adventure |
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Scarlett Johansson is to star in the costume drama Napoleon And Betsy. The independent film will tell the story of Napoleon's final years in exile on the island of St Helena as he falls in love with a young English girl, played by Johansson. The Lost In Translation star is no stranger to period dramas having already taken the lead in Girl With A Pearl Earring, appearing in A Good Woman, based on the Oscar Wilde play, and she is soon to hit the screens in Brian De Palma's The Black Dahlia. Her... Read more
Sexy star Megan Fox has given her Transformers director Michael Bay's all-action reputation a bashing, insisting the moviemaker has "no social skills" and is "hopelessly awkward". When asked about her experiences working with Bay during an interview with Wonderland magazine, Fox reveals the director was a hard taskmaster - and she thinks he's slightly mad. She says, "I really wish I could go loose on this one - hes (Bay) like Napoleon and he wants to create this insane, infamous mad-man... Read more
Steve Carell has signed up for a lead role in Brigadier Gerard, a period comedy about a French soldier during the Napoleonic wars. Based on a series of stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, the film is a comic take on Napoleon's rise to power and his eventual downfall. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Carell is set to play the hapless soldier Etienne Gerard in the film, which is to be penned by King Of The Hill's John Altshuler and David Krinsky. The publication added that the role could expand... Read more
Steven Spielberg has bought the rights to forthcoming adventure series The 39 Clues amid speculation he may direct a movie attached to the project. There are ten books planned for the series, which is being described as a multi-media adventure, with kids around the world able to win a prize of $10,000 if they solve the mystery. It focuses on the mega-rich Cahill family, whose ancestors include people such as Napoleon and Houdini. The family's matriarch, Grace, offers her descendants clues to... Read more
With few exceptions, films about the great composers have been a rum bunch. Grieg got the egregious Song of Norway. Ken Russell did well by Delius in Song of Summer, okay by Tchaikovsky in The Music Lovers, so-so for Mahler, then perpetrated Lisztomania, with Roger Daltrey as Franz Liszt, Paul Nicholas as Wagner, and Ringo Starr as the Pope. And of course, Tom Hulce played Mozart as a braying adolescent in Amadeus. Stern, deaf old Beethoven has mostly been given a wide berth by filmmakers,... Read more
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