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VALLETTA – British director Ridley Scott is back in Malta for the shooting of Napoleon, the epic biopic that the winner of 9 Academy Awards (with Alien, Thelma & Louise, Gladiator and Black Hawk Down) decided to shoot entrusting the role of Bonaparte to Joaquim Phoenix and that of his wife Josephine to Vanessa Kirby. The film, produced by Apple Studios, will be set in various locations in Malta, including the streets of Valletta, the historic Fort Ricasoli (which will be presented as Toulon, the scene of Napoleon’s first victory) and the ancient capital of Mdina.
For Scott, 84, it is the third return to Malta, where he set the sets of White Squall (L’Albatross-Oltre la Tempesta) in 1996 and Gladiator in 2000. The idea of a war film on the story of Napoleon Bonaparte in the past it has been the dream of many directors, including Stanley Kubrick who failed to realize the project, now taken up by Scott. “Napoleon was a man I’ve always been fascinated by,” the director told MaltaToday. to win his love and when he couldn’t, he won him to destroy him. And in the process he destroyed himself”.
