We haven’t gotten many big studio takes on Napoleon Bonaparte’s outrageous life, which is why I am absolutely ecstatic to see what Ridley Scott will deliver with “Kitbag.”
What we know about Scott’s “Kitbag” is that it will be a personal look at the life of Napoleon. The IMDB synopsis claims that it will track his “swift, ruthless climb to emperor through the perspective of his ‘addictive and often volatile’ relationship with Josephine.”
According to The Oxford Mail, filming on “Kitbag” will begin in January, with a source from the set explaining that “various battle scenes” will be filmed in the Oxfordshire. The source also described the film as “massive” and “bigger than 1917”. Whatever that means.
Joaquin Phoenix will play Napoleon. Jodie Comer will be Josephine. “Kitbag” will be based on a screenplay by David Scarpa, who teamed up with with Scott in 2017 on the more-than-decent “All the Money in the World.”
”Kitbag” comes to us as Cary Fukunaga is set to adapt Stanley Kubrick’s legendary and unfilmed “Napoleon” screenplay as a six-episode HBO mini-series.
Turns out, there’s a much more sexual version of “One Night Only,” with lots of sex and nudity, that never made it to theaters. The film’s director, Will Gluck, blames audience discomfort for the cuts.