Spielberg had already mentioned ten years ago that he was trying to adapt the film based on Kubrick’s script for a miniseries.
American filmmaker Steven Spielberg confirmed Tuesday that he is working on an original Stanley Kubrick script about Napoleon to create a series.
“We are setting up a great production” for a seven-part series for the American chain HBO based on this script written in 1961, he said at a press conference in Berlin.
Spielberg had already mentioned ten years ago that he was trying to adapt this script for a miniseries. Kubrick, best known for his films 2001: A Space Odyssey and A Clockwork Orange, died in 1999 and never finished his own Napoleon biopic project.
The American filmmaker will receive an honorary Golden Bear at the Berlinale [el festival de cine de Berlín] for a career that has changed the history of cinema, from Jaws to ET through Schindler’s List.
Spielberg also talked about his film The Fabelmans, a semi-autobiographical drama that tells the story of a boy who deals with the separation of his parents while his passion for cinema is born.
«You had to tell a story with many funny moments, but also with many scenes that were traumatic. Recreating those scenes was very hard,” she said.