Alexander Expected Release Date U.S. : 2006 (Subject to change)
Expected Release Date U.K. : 2006 (subject to change)
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Alexander Cast : Lenoardo Di Caprio, Nicole Kidman
Director : Baz Luhrmann
Alexander Written By : Christopher Kyle, Baz Luhrmann
Producers : Dino De Laurentiis
Other Known Crew Members :

Alexander Based On : The life of Alexander The Great.
Premise/Synopsis : The story of the man who conquered most of the known world at the time, only to die a drunk at the age of 33 (Corona).
Genre : Historical Drama

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Released By : Universal/Dream Works

Alexander Status : In Development

How excited are we about Alexander : 8 Out Of 10

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22nd February 2005: Movie News: Untitled Alexander the Great Project:
News Item Posted by: Loretta Francis Producer Dino De Laurentiis has confirmed that he is moving forward with plans to film his Alexander the Great project. It is to be directed by Baz Luhrmann ("Moulin Rouge") and to star Leonardo DiCaprio and Nicole Kidman. Shooting is set to begin in 2006.
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Wednesday 14th July 2004: Alexander the Great Update:
Baz Luhrmann is still working on a draft for his version of the Alexander the Great story despite rumours of the project being abandoned due to Oliver Stone's forth-coming movie on the ruler starring Colin Farrell. Universal Pictures and DreamWorks are to produce the epic with Leonardo DiCaprio starring and Nicole Kidman as his mother.

Monday 25th August 2003: Alexander The Great Update:
Director Baz Luhrmann has hired veteran British playwright David Hare
(Oscar-nominated for The Hours) to write the script for Alexander the Great.
Luhrmann has already written a treatment laying out his vision for the
drama.

Wednesday 13th August 2003: Alexander The Great Update:
Director Baz Luhrmann has asked the Australian government for about 500
soldiers to help film scenes for his new movie Alexander the Great. State
Labor MP Peter Black says if that were to happen, it would benefit the
entire Australian film industry.

Wednesday 13th August 2003: Alexander Update:
Dale Dye, second unit director for Alexander has been talking about the project ""Alexander is a huge, sweeping prehistorical spectacle almost....We’re going to try to examine what made Alexander ‘the Great’. Oliver has written an extraordinary script, probably the best writing I’ve seen him do since Platoon....I think it’s going to be, from a military standpoint, it’s going to be a look at how brilliantly he used what we would consider primitive technology and what an extraordinary tactician he was. We’re going to look at why people loved him, why they were following him for the years and years it took for him to campaign and virtually conquer the known world". What about the Luhrmann / DiCaprio version - "I tell you, I don’t know much about it. I think they would go a long, long, long way to come up with a script that’s anywhere near as insightful, as brilliant as Oliver’s. I think they may take a look at what we bring out because they have cancelled now and decided that they’re going to delay on it into the next year. They may get a hint of what’s going on and might just move on to greener pastures".

Saturday 9th August 2003: Alexander The Great Update:
Baz Luhrmann has been talking about Alexander the Great
Are you getting the cast you wanted? I've got Leonardo. In my mind, there was only one appropriate casting for Alexander and that was Leonardo. I worked with him when he was 19. He's a good friend and I've watched him grow into an actor who's truly in control of his own abilities. I've been thinking about doing Alexander for 10 years, but I never mentioned it to Leonardo. Then, when Marty [Scorsese] went to do his, he thought of Leonardo first and you totally understand why. When you see Alexander's face on screen, you've got to believe 50,000 men would follow this boy-man across the world. It's very hard to manifest humanity in a character that's an icon, but Leonardo is the guy for that kind of gig.
Who else is part of your cast? Nicole Kidman is playing Alexander's mother, Olympia, who is sort of a match for Cleopatra. I'll be seeing her in a few weeks and Leonardo in Montreal and I'm bringing them a draft, so both of them will know exactly what I'm doing. I still can't technically offer anyone contracts. I've gotten into the story by investing hugely in Alexander's childhood at the age of 9. So, I've got to find the perfect 9-year-old that looks like Leonardo as a child, who's really good with a horse and can act, and then I've got to schedule him before he grows up. As soon as I can cast the child, I can offer the contracts to the other actors.
What is the film's look? The assumed look of the ancient world was cooked up in '50s Hollywood -- everyone in white bedsheets and white miniskirts. It's definitely not that. There's a visual richness that you don't associate with the kind of camp '50s Hollywood language of it. It's a world you look at and wish you'd been part of.

Wednesday 6th August 2003: Alexander Update:
Colin Farrell has been talking about pre-production on Alexander "The film
is huge. I've been working on it for three or four weeks and it's very
intense. There's a lot of reading, horse work, sword work, shield work and
a lot of studying tactics and strategy. It's an incredible script."

Friday 1st August 2003: Alexander Update:
Colin Farrell has been talking about Alexander, specifically Angelina
Jolie's role "It's kind of a cruel twist of fate. I'm getting to work with
Angelina, and she's playing my mother. I've only got one scene with her
where I'm 18, so I've got to make sure I get a good night of sleep so I
have no bags."

Wednesday 30th July 2003: Alexander Update:
As production gears up, Oliver Stone has signed up Jared Leto to play Hephaistion, one of Alexander's top generals.

Tuesday 29th July 2003: Alexander The Great Update:
Alexander the Great director Baz Luhrmann told BBC Breakfast that he is looking to cast an unknown in the film starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Nicole Kidman.He's looking for someone to play the part of a young Alexander. Luhrmann says he will leave no stone unturned to find the actor to play the young Leonardo DiCaprio. The part of the young Alexander is crucial, says the director because it gets to the heart of what he needs to do with this film - which is to take an icon and make it human.
If you or someone you know is interested in the role and meet the criteria...

-Baz Luhrmann is looking for a boy age 8 or 9
-Who must be able to ride a horse or be prepared to learn
-Must be a good physical match for Leonardo DiCaprio

Then send a color head shot, CV and statistical details including age, height, weight, and horse riding experience to:
Universal Pictures Feature Castings Dept
UNTITLED ALEXANDER THE GREAT PROJECT
100 Universal City Plaza
Building 2160/8A
Universal City, CA 91608
USA

Monday 28th July 2003: Alexander Update:
Rosario Dawson looks to have been signed up by Oliver Stone to play Colin
Farrell's first wife in the movie.

Tuesday 22nd July 2003: Alexander Update:
Angelina Jolie has been cast by director Oliver Stone in his upcoming epic
Alexander. Jolie will play the Macedonian conqueror's mother, Olympias, and
will shoot her scenes in Morocco and London this autumn.

Monday 7th July 2003: Alexander The Great Update:
Reports reach us that Baz Luhrmann and Dino De Laurentis have been looking
at filming at Fox Studios, Sydney for filming. Reports also have Man-Thing
and Red Dwarf filming there.

Monday 30th June 2003: Alexander The Great Update:
Filming on Alexander The Great if it goes ahead in Australia will start in March next year. Rumours also have Mel Gibson playing Alexander's father.

Thursday 26th June 2003: Alexander The Great Update:
Reports reach us that the Alexander The Great is now heading for Broken
Hill in Australia for its main filming location after rejecting Morocco due
to terrorist action. Baz Luhrmann and Dino De Laurentiis toured the
isolated, outback town looking for desert locations.

Thursday 19th June 2003: Alexander The Great Update:
Word reaches us that a casting session took place in Dublin this week for
an 8 year old boy and a 16 year old boy to play the young Alexander in the
soon to film Alexander The Great. They will be required for four months
worth of filming and the boys had to have brown hair and brown eyes to
match Colin Farrell.

Thursday 29th May 2003: Alexander Update:
Colin Farrell has been talking about his preparation or lack of so far for
Alexander ""I don't work out - no way. I've done a couple of times for
various gigs but not much. Nothing like what I'll need to do for Alexander.
I'll have to put on about 20lb of muscle. There'll be so much swordplay - I
mean, he was a hunter when he was two years old, killing wild boars. So
there's a bit of catching up to do."

Wednesday 28th May 2003: Alexander The Great Update:
Director Baz Luhrmann has been talking about his Alexander the Great film,
saying that he’s determined to shoot the movie Down Under. “Simply put, we
absolutely want to make the film in Australia,” he explains. “And we have
wanted to do that for over a year now. So we're going to do everything we
can to make that happen." The hurdles have included the rising value of the
Australia dollar and the unavailability of "6000 soldiers who don't have a
day job," as was offered in Morocco. Luhrmann added that the scale of the
film was daunting. "The reason that Alexander the Great really has not been
done successfully before is the sheer scale of it, it's the world's biggest
road movie. He goes from Greece to Turkey to Egypt to Jordan to the Hindu
Kush to India, then all the way back again. And all the way, you're dealing
with drama and spectacle. At one stage there were half a million people in
one battle." Regarding the competition with the other Alexander film planned
by Oliver Stone, Luhrmann said he would not be racing to get to the screen
first. "I simply do not believe that I can make a film that requires such
extraordinary challenges to be overcome and be rushing at the same time."

Monday 26th May 2003: Alexander Update:
It now looks as Bax Luhrmann's Alexander will film in Australia due to the terrorist attacks in Morocco. Producer Dino De Laurentis had this to say "Unless the situation changes in five or six months, any important American actor could be a target. That's a risk I cannot take".

Thursday 22nd May 2003: Alexander the Great Update:
Producer Dino De Laurentiis is apparently planning to relocate the
production of Baz Luhrmann's biopic Alexander the Great to Australia. The
move comes following a wave of suicide attacks that killed 41 civilians last
week in Casablanca. De Laurentiis, who built a studio to house the project
in Ouarzazate, less than 300 miles from Casablanca, has decided the
political conditions are too precarious. "Unless the situation changes in
five or six months, any important American actor could be a target. That is
a risk I cannot take,” he said.

Thursday 22nd May 2003: Alexander the Great Update:
Rumours are circulating that Matt Keesler is being considered for the role of Hephaistion Alexanders friend and lover.

Wednesday 7th May 2003: Alexander Update:
The race to get the story of Alexander the Great to the big screen seems to
have produced a winner. With Oliver Stone trying to get his version of
Alexander into cinemas by November 2004, it looks like he’ll be first past
the post, because Baz Luhrmann and producer Dino De Laurentis now say their
Alexander the Great will not be released until at least late 2005.

Monday 5th May 2003: Alexander Update:
Anthony Hopkins is negotiating to star alongside Colin Farrell in Oliver
Stone’s Alexander. Hopkins, reteaming with his Nixon director, will play the
role of Ptolemy, the last surviving general in the army of Macedonian
conqueror Alexander the Great who went on to become the Pharaoh of Egypt. A
younger actor will be cast to play Ptolemy in battle scenes. Principal
photography is on course to begin in July. Filming will stop for a month in
August and resume in September.

Tuesday 29th April 2003: Alexander Update:
Pathe has signed up as co-production partner and will handle distribution rights in France and Benelux on Oliver Stone's Alexander.

24th April 2003: Alexander the Great Update:
Colin Farrell has been talking about how excited he is to be playing a
bisexual in his next big role. The actor will star as Alexander the Great,
the 20 year-old King of Macedonia in the 4th century BC. He says Oliver
Stone has written such a phenomenal script he can't wait to start shooting
in June. "Everything is in it. There's greed, there's jealousy, there's
love, there's pain, there's hope, there's desperation, there's pride,
there's friendship, there's betrayal. It's an amazing, amazing story,” he
gushes. "There's so much in it, it's so dense that it nearly reads like bad
fiction. Obviously bisexual, which wasn't even an issue back then. There was
no term for bisexuality, it was just the way society was. People made love
to men and women. It was only later on you had to pick one side of the
fence. It's amazing."

Tuesday 15th April 2003: Alexander Update:
Rumours are circulating that Leonardo DiCaprio is possibly leaving
Alexander, the Baz Luhrmann project. This may have something to do with the
delays in filming due to the Iraq crisis.

Monday 7th April 2003: Alexander The Great Update:
Oliver Stone and Intermedia are already out of the blocks in the race to
make an Alexander the Great film. The director is way up in the mountains of
Northern India, close to the Himalayas, filming background footage. "It's
bloody cold, but the sun is shining beautifully and the weather presented an
opportunity we had to grab," said Intermedia chairman Moritz Borman. "Even
though they're up 14,000 feet, Oliver insisted on shooting the footage
himself."

Friday 31st January 2003: Alexander The Great Update:
Oliver Stone is rumoured to have signed up WMTA World Kickboxing Champion Nick Kara for a role in his Alexander movie.

Friday 17th January 2003: Alexander the Great Update:
Oliver Stone's Alexander movie will start filming in June this year with Intermedia Chairman Moritz Borman having this to say "Barring accidents and natural disasters, this is a definite 'go' movie for us, Colin's deal has been made, he's juggled his dates and made time for training. We've not decided 100% where we are going to start, haven't made up our minds whether we'll sell territories ourselves, or to a studio like we did on 'Terminator 3.' The June date changes only in that Oliver might begin second unit shooting earlier."

Thursday 9th January 2003: Alexander The Great Update:
It has been confirmed that Leonardo DiCaprio is "very interested" as starring as Alexander for director Baz Luhrmann and negotiations are taking place to make it happen. Nicole Kidman is also thought to be playing his mother but no confirmation on that yet. Universal are thought to be setting the budget at $150 million.

Sunday 5th January 2003: Alexander The Great Update:
The Guardian newspaper over here in the UK has just done a huge piece on the two Alexander The Great pictures in production. "[Baz] Luhrmann was to start shooting the $150m (£93.5m) saga in Morocco in the early spring, having persuaded King Mohammed VI to lend him 5,000 soldiers and 1,000 horses for his battle scenes, but filming has been put back to the autumn". Meanwhile Oliver Stone's version is set to shoot in Morocco this June with Colin Farrell. On the two screenplays - "While Luhrmann and [Ted] Tally's (Red Dragon) script is believed to stick closely to Manfredi's take on Alexander as the great expander of Greek and thus western cultural influence, Stone's take is more heretical, as one would expect from the man who made JFK. It also gives full play to the whirl of conspiracy theories that surrounded Alexander's life and death". The Guardian's site has more details on both projects. Meanwhile, we're hearing rumours that Nicole Kidman has been cast as Alexander's mother, Olympia, in Baz Luhrmann's version. Kidman as Leonardo Di Caprio's mother?

Friday 13th December 2002: Alexander Update:
Rumours are circulating that Nicole Kidman will be signed up to star as Leonardo Di Caprio's mother in Baz Luhrmann's Alexander movie. Her role would see her aging as Alexander grows from a boy to a grown man.

Friday 13th December 2002: Alexander Update:
20th Century Fox have pulled out of co-financing Alexander, with DreamWorks rushing right in and taking over. As part of the deal they will finance jointly with Universal distributing in America and DreamWorks internationally. Filming is now scheduled for the second half of 2003.

Tuesday 5th November 2002: Alexander Update:
Baz Luhrmann has been talking about his in development Alexander movie and this is what he had to say " You know, I have many epic works that I really want to explore, but I've been fascinated by his character. The thing about Alexander is is that we, you and I, would not be sitting here but for him because essentially you got someone who was trained by the greatest military mind of his time, his father... By the sort of Obi-Wan Kenobi of the Ancient World, which is Aristotle. It's a freak situation. His parents are arguing over him, so he's looking for the approval of his father, but his father dies before he can get that love. It's really just a domestic situation and if they lived in a suburban house it would really be no big deal, but they happened to possess the world. So, in pursuit of that approval of his father, his terrible internal complex becomes an external complex where he just goes beyond the boundaries of the world. He invaded more of the lands better than any general before or after. More extraordinarily, you have to remember that before Alexander the Great... In the same way that perhaps Western Culture is American dominated to a certain degree, and that's no judgment... It was Persian dominated (back then). That's Iraq. The Battle of Gaugamela is exactly in the middle of the No Fly Zone in Iraq. So, interestingly, the moment at which this thing called "western thought" actually started having an influence on the globe was through Alexander the Great. He had this idea... What if all cultures could live under the one banner? What if East and West could live together? For all those reasons it has great potency. "

Saturday 12th October 2002: Alexander Update:
Leonardo Di Caprio has announced that he will star in The Aviator, so how will this affect his planned role in Alexander. Well he will star in The Aviator first, this will mean Alexander being pushed back to at least the latter half of next year.

Monday 7th October 2002: Alexander The Great Update:
Writer Ted Tally has been talking about the work involved adapting the story of Alexander for a movie."It's from a trilogy of novels, It's 1400 pages, these books put together. So, to reduce 1400 pages to 130 or so is insane. It's just a monstrously difficult thing to do. Even though Alexander only lived 32 years, they were awfully packed years. You could make a movie about any 10 year period of his life. You could make three movies, him to the age of 10, him to the age of 20, and 20 to 32. You could make three movies, his life is that packed. So, that was the hardest adaptation just a sheer struggle with the material."

Friday 4th October 2002: Alexander Update:
Writer Ted Tally has been talking about the production of the in development Alexander movie "We [Baz & Ted] haven't really worked together yet. We've met and talked on the phone, but it's been so far more general. We haven't gotten down to nuts and bolts of the revisions yet. I think he's going to want more scenes of Alexander's childhood, but we haven't really gotten down to the details yet. He's agreed to do the movie and the studio greenlit it, but there's still script work to be done."

Monday 23rd September 2002: Alexander The Great Update:
Writer Ted Tally has been talking about his script for the upcoming Baz Luhrmann directed Leonardo Di Caprio starring Alexander The Great. And he has confirmed that the script will explore Alexander's bisexuality.

Wednesday 18th September 2002: Alexander The Great Update:
Leonardo Di Caprio has announced that he has definetely signed up to star as Alexander in the upcoming Baz Luhrmann project. Martin Scorsese will produce alongside Dino De Laurentiis. De Laurentiis had this to say about the project "We have the full support of the King of Morocco, They give us 5,000 soldiers and 1,000 horses. It will be a very long movie to film ... you get together 5,000 extras, you need six months training just for them."

Tuesday 17th September 2002: Alexander The Great Update:
Colin Farrell is thought to be being lined up to star as Alexander in Oilver Stone's version of the Alexander The Great story.

Monday 19th August 2002 : Alexander the Great Update:
Looks like there is going to be a big fight over the upcoming Alexander The Great movies. Looks like both the Baz Luhrmann production and the Dino De Laurentis production want Lenardo Di Caprio to play Alexander. Personally I want Baz to get him, as no matter what you say about Baz Luhrmann movie's they will always be lass of a hack effort than most De Laurentis productions.

8th May 2002: Alexander Update:
Oliver Stone will direct a Christopher Kyle screenplay based upon the life of Alexander The Great. Oliver Stone also has a screewriting credit on the IMDB, but the site also lists Heath Ledger in the title role. We've heard that Tigerland star Colin Farrell has replaced him as the legndary ruler.

This is a project that Stone has been wanting to do for many years. Now that it looks like it may happen, two other productions may happen also. Martin Scorsese has an Alexander The Great project in development with Leonardo DiCaprio attached to star in the lead and Dino De Laurantis has a Ted Tally screenplay that could be filmed under the direction of Ridley Scott. Variety report that this Stone movie may kick off shooting on October 16th this year in India. If so, it will beat both De Laurantis's and Scorsese's film to theaters.

More news on Alexander as we get it!

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