With Ridley Scott’s historical epic Napoleon soon to hit the big screens, film fans are excited to see the director’s take on the powerful figure’s life story.
A historical epic is nothing new for Scott, with movies such as Exodus: Gods and Kings and Kingdom of Heaven already under his belt.
For Napoleon, he is set to reunite with his Gladiator collaborator Joaquin Phoenix, having earned the now-Oscar-winning actor his first nomination in 2001.
As a result, it’s easy to imagine what kind of movie Napoleon might be, but did you know that there was once a time when Ridley Scott was hired to direct a very different kind of historical epic? During its initial development hell, producer Leonardo DiCaprio hired Scott to direct what later became Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street.
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