The primary trailer has landed for director Ridley Scott’s Napoleon, an epic biopic in regards to the French Emperor’s ascension to and fall from energy. With a screenplay written by David Scarpa (who can be co-writing Scott’s forthcoming Gladiator sequel with Peter Craig), the movie stars Joaquin Phoenix as Napoleon Bonaparte. Co-starring are Vanessa Kirby as his spouse, Empress Joséphine, and Tahar Rahim as Paul Barras, the principle govt chief of the post-revolution Listing regime, who helped organize their marriage and made Napoleon common within the battalion of Italians.
An official synopsis reads:
Napoleon is a spectacle-filled motion epic that particulars the checkered rise and fall of the long-lasting French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, performed by Oscar-winner Joaquin Phoenix. Towards a shocking backdrop of large-scale filmmaking orchestrated by legendary director Ridley Scott, the movie captures Bonaparte’s relentless journey to energy via the prism of his addictive, unstable relationship together with his one real love, Josephine, showcasing his visionary army and political techniques in opposition to a few of the most dynamic sensible battle sequences ever filmed.
Napoleon arrives in theaters on November 22, with a streaming launch via Apple TV+ to come back at a later date. Watch the trailer above.
