Napoleon has proven a formidable adversary for filmmakers to topple. No less than Stanley Kubrick tried and failed to mount a lavish Napoleon biopic, but other than the contained and costly Russian flop Waterloo and the silent Abel Gance movie, the infamous military commander has never gotten the bigbudget epic he deserved. Leave it to Ridley Scott, at 85, to finally do what Kubrick couldn't make the definitive Napoleon movie.

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