(Berlin) Steven Spielberg said on Tuesday that he was working on a television series adaptation project from an original screenplay by Stanley Kubrick on Napoleon, which has been in his drawers for years.
We “are in the process of mounting a major production” for a series in seven episodes for the American channel HBO from this script written in 1961, he assured at a press conference in Berlin.
Spielberg had already mentioned ten years ago the fact that he was developing for a miniseries this scenario written by the director of 2001: At Space Odyssey And At Clockwork Orangeand which has already inspired him AI Artificial Intelligence (2001).
Kubrick, who died in 1999, never completed his own Napoleon biopic project.
Steven Spielberg is to be presented by the Berlinale with an Honorary Golden Bear for a career that has changed the history of cinema, jaws To AND Passing by Schindler’s List.
He also returned to the set of The Fabelmanshis almost autobiographical film which comes out on Wednesday in France, and tells the story of a child who tries to cope with the separation of his parents, and the parallel birth of the vocation of a filmmaker.
“We had to tell a story with lots of funny moments, but also a lot of scenes that were traumatic. Just recreating those scenes was very hard,” he said.
“I always wanted to tell the story of my mother, my father and my sister, and this kind of incredible struggle between art and family. I’ve had it in my head all my life, it’s infused into all of my movies, all of my movies are personal and a lot of them are about family, but nothing is as personal as The Fabelmans “.
At 76, Spielberg says he is “still so excited” about cinema: finding a story to film, “it surpasses everything else in my life, except maybe the birth of a child”, he added. .