On January 4, 2022, Comer revealed her departure from the film due to scheduling changes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Even now, doing some costume and hair tests for Kitbag, it's just so exciting because it becomes so much easier to step out of yourself and into somebody else." The same month, Youssef Kerkour was confirmed to star. ![]() I'm so excited to delve into that world." In November, she said her role was "going to be another huge challenge, but what I love about period dramas is that kind of transformation. She entered negotiations to star in March 2021, confirmed her casting in September, and said "I just jumped at the chance to work with Ridley and his team again and the idea of working with Joaquin, who's someone who I hugely admire. The Last Duel actress Jodie Comer was reportedly Scott's first choice to play Empress Joséphine. He conquered the world to try to win her love, and when he couldn't, he conquered it to destroy her, and destroyed himself in the process." "He came out of nowhere to rule everything - but all the while he was waging a romantic war with his adulterous wife Joséphine. "Napoleon is a man I've always been fascinated by", Scott said in a statement. In January 2021, Apple Studios announced its commitment to finance and produce the film, with shooting scheduled to take place in the United Kingdom in 2022. However, when Scott's deal with 20th Century Studios concluded by the end of the year, the project became available to other major studios. Joaquin Phoenix was reportedly attached to star as the French general and Emperor of France Napoléon Bonaparte, reuniting him with the director after Gladiator in 2000. The film's title was derived from the saying, "There is a general's staff hidden in every soldier's kitbag." The film is now titled Napoleon. On October 14, 2020, the same day his film The Last Duel wrapped filming, Ridley Scott announced Kitbag as his next project for 20th Century Studios, which he would direct and produce from a screenplay written by Scott's All the Money in the World collaborator David Scarpa. ![]() Most recently, Steven Spielberg differentiated the 2023 Ridley Scott production from an announced HBO limited series based on Kubrick's concept. In the decades since, multiple attempts by other filmmakers to produce Kubrick's concept have been discussed. Stanley Kubrick commenced development of a Napoleon biopic as early as 1969, but lost the financial backing after the failure of another Napoleon-themed film ( Waterloo) and instead made A Clockwork Orange. ![]() Joaquin Phoenix (left) plays Napoleon (right)
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