Spielberg prepares series about Napoleon based on script by Stanley Kubrick

American filmmaker Steven Spielberg confided this Tuesday that is working on an original script by Stanley Kubrick about Napoleon to create a series.

“We are putting together a big production” for a seven-part series for the American network HBO based on this script written in 1961, he assured at a press conference in Berlin.

Spielberg had already mentioned ten years ago that he was trying to adapt this script. for a miniseries.

Kubrick, known for his films “2001: A Space Odyssey” and “A Clockwork Orange,” died in 1999 and never finished his own Napoleon biopic project.

American filmmaker will receive an honorary Golden Bear at the Berlinaland (Berlin Film Festival) for a career that has changed the history of cinema, from “Jaws” to “ET” to “Schindler’s List”.

Spielberg also talked about his film “The Fabelmans,” a semi-autobiographical drama that tells the story of a boy who deals with the separation of his parents while his passion for cinema is born.

“You had to tell a story with a lot of funny moments, but also with a lot of scenes that were traumatic. 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 had it in my mind all my life, it permeated all my films, all my films are personal and many are about family, but nothing is as personal as ‘The Fabelmans'”he went on.

At 76, Spielberg affirms that he “continues to be enthusiastic” about the cinema. Finding a story to record “trumps everything else in my life, except maybe the birth of a child,” he added.