Film scholars have long been aware that the most grandiose of Stanley Kubrick's unrealized dreams was his planned epic based on the life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Now Taschen publishers has gained access to virtually all of the master director's research archives on the film and is presenting them in a magnificent, limited edition book the likes of which are truly grandiose. The downside: you have to be the emperor of France to afford it. The volume will cost $700 and is limited to only 1,000 copies. There are almost 3,000 pages in the reproduction of a Napoleonic-era history book, and the volume itself contains mini-books that are ingeniously built into the edition. Buyers also get access to over 17,000 on-line images that Kubrick used for research purposes. For more visit the Taschen site by
clicking here. For an article about the film that never was from The Times of London,
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