Ridley Scott has a “fantastic” four-and-a-half hour cut of ‘Napoleon’
nme.comRidley Scott has revealed he has a “fantastic” cut of his upcoming film Napoleon which runs for nearly four-and-a-half hours.His next film, which stars Joaquin Phoenix as the French leader Napoleon Bonaparte, has an official running time of 158 minutes.
The director has said there’s an extended version which he hopes will eventually see the light of day.As reported in the September 2023 issue of Empire magazine (via Variety), the near 270-minute version “features more of Joséphine’s life before she meets Napoleon.
He’d love Apple (who funded the film) to eventually screen it. But what they have now is hardly slight. ‘It’s an astonishing story,’ Phoenix says of Napoleon’s life. ‘Hopefully we captured some of the most interesting moments.’”Vanessa Kirby stars opposite Phoenix as Napoleon’s wife Joséphine in the film, which is scheduled to be released in cinemas on November 22, 2023.Speaking about the film to Empire, Kirby said: “Joaquin studies the psyche, and the psyche of Napoleon is so strange.
The film feels like that. It’s kind of peculiar, and there’s an intensity in that.“Napoleon wasn’t stoic and wonderful like Russell Crowe was in Gladiator.
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