Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: Ridley Scott will team with Joaquin Phoenix for Kitbag, with the Oscar-winning Joker star to play French military leader and emperor Napoleon.
Pic is set at 20th Century Studios, where Scott Free has its deal. This comes as Scott today wraps production on The Last Duel in Ireland for 20th.
Scott has screenwriter David Scarpa –, who wrote the Scott-directed All the Money in the World — working on a script for the Napoleon epic.
The film will be produced by Scott and Kevin Walsh for Scott Free.The film’s title is derived from the saying “There is a general’s staff hidden in every soldier’s kitbag.
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