After
The Last Duel
, scheduled for October 15 at the cinema, Ridley Scott tackles a new part of the history of France.
And not the least.
The director of
Gladiator
recently announced the shooting of a film about Napoleon.
Kitbag
, produced by Apple, will retrace the rise of the famous Corsica to the highest spheres of the French state, which has become an empire under its yoke.
He will deal with the subject through his relationship with Joséphine de Beauharnais, who became his wife in 1796.
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Ridley Scott's film on Napoleon
After announcing the Oscar winner Joaquin Phoenix for the title role, the specialized site Deadline has just unveiled the name of the actress who will play the Empress of the French: Jodie Comer.
The 27-year-old actress, who played Rey's mother in Episode 9 of the
Star Wars
saga
and the evil killer Villanelle in
Killing Eve
, previously worked for Ridley Scott in
The Last Duel
.
A choice of casting which was not to the taste of several Internet users.
They believe that the actress is too young to slip into the skin of Joséphine de Beauharnais, six years older than Napoleon.
Joaquin Phoenix, his companion on screen, is 46 years old, 19 older than Jodie Comer.
A significant and historically imprecise difference, but a challenge that Hollywood can take up, at a time when actors are digitally rejuvenating (or aging).
The making of
Kitbag
- a title derived from the English expression "
There is a staff hidden in the package (kitbag in VO) of every soldier
" - should begin after that of
Gucci
, whose filming has just started in Rome. .
The film will be written by David Scarpa, to whom we owe in particular
The day the Earth
stopped and
All the money in the world
.
This will not be the first time that the British filmmaker has portrayed the Napoleonic era.
In his first feature film,
The Duelists
, Harvey Keitel and Keith Carradine respectively played an emperor's hussar and a cavalry officer engaged in a series of duels.
An epic inspired among others by
Barry Lyndon
which in 1977 won him the prize for the first work in Cannes.
