‘Napoleon’ Trailer Released Starring Joaquin Phoenix – The Hollywood Reporter

Joaquin Phoenix in ‘Napoleon’

Ridley Scott returns to the historical epic genre in this first trailer for a gripping hit Napoleonwhich unites the director with an Oscar laureate wrestler Star Joaquin Phoenix.

Napoleon It is described as capturing “Napoleon Bonaparte’s relentless journey to power through the prism of his volatile and addictive relationship with his one true love, Josephine (Vanessa Kirby), pitting his wise military and political tactics against some of the most dynamic practical battle sequences ever filmed.”

“I’m the first to admit when I make a mistake,” Bonaparte (Phoenix) says at one point in the trailer, “I simply never do.”

The trailer shows several sweeping battlefield scenes that narrate the French military commander and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the Revolutionary Wars, eventually becoming Emperor of the French in 1804.

In addition to Phoenix as the original short King, the film also stars Ben Miles, Matthew Needham, Tahir Rahim, Youssef Kerkour and Phil Cornwell, among others.

The project also released a poster with the marketing slogan: “It came from nothing. It conquered everything.”

Hollywood was looking forward to something definitive Napoleon biography for decades. Stanley Kubrick famously developed a project in 1969, but financial backers pulled out after another project titled Waterloo flopped. In 2021, Scott said Delivery time, “Napoleon is a man I’ve always been infatuated with. He came out of nowhere to rule everything—but all the while he was waging romantic warfare with his adulterous wife Josephine. He conquered the world trying to win her love, and when he couldn’t, he conquered her to destroy her, destroying himself in the process” . He added, “No actor could embody Napoleon like Joaquín. He created one of the most complex emperors in film history.” wrestler, and we will create another with Napoleon. ”

The original title of the movie was, oddly enough, kitbagwhich is reportedly based on the enigmatic expression, “There is a general body hidden in every soldier’s tool bag”—a reference to how there is potential for greatness in every fighting man.

Napoleon Produced by Sony Pictures and Apple Original Films. Napoleon It was released in theaters on November 22, 2023 by Sony Pictures and will stream on Apple TV+ at a later date.