Baz Luhrmann Might Be Helming Kubrick's NAPOLEON for HBO

 

Well, in some out of left-field news comes word that Baz Luhrmann, who directed this summer's surprise hit The Great Gatsby, is currently being drawn to the Spielberg produced HBO miniseries that renowned director Stanley Kubrick had been attempting to make in the 60's, according to Deadline:

Deals are a long way from being made, but I’m told the plan is for Luhrmann to take on what becomes the highest-profile miniseries at that payweb. When Spielberg first revealed the project in an interview with Canal Plus on French TV, he said that this was the project Kubrick had dreamed of making, only to drop it when Hollywood studios refused to fund it, even after Kubrick promised in a letter to studio executives in 1971 that it would be the best movie ever made. Indeed, the movie has been coined “the greatest movie never made.”

Baz Luhrmann would be the man for your sweeping and gorgeous epics that's for sure, especially on such a high-profile project backed by the wallets of HBO and Steven Spielberg himself.

NAPOLEON, intended as "the best film ever made" was eying Audrey Hepburn and David Hemmings for te lead roles; which Kubrick was said to work on into the late 1980's.