Oscar winner Joaquin Phoenix (Joker) takes on the titular role in the epic action film Napoleon, heading to theaters on November 22, 2023. The trailer provides our first good look at Phoenix as the French Emperor and opens with chaos in the streets and Marie Antoinette being jeered as she’s led to the guillotine. Additional scenes show Napoleon being given command of the army, in battle, and using the pyramids as target practice.
The trailer arrived with the official poster featuring the tagline: “He came from nothing. He conquered everything.”
The film reunites four-time Oscar nominee Ridley Scott with his Gladiator star. It also features Vanessa Kirby as Josephine as well as Ben Miles as Coulancourt, Ludivine Sagnier as Theresa Cabarrus, and Tahar Rahim as Paul Barras.
David Scarpa (All the Money in the World) wrote the screenplay, and Ridley Scott, Kevin J. Walsh, Mark Huffam, and Joaquin Phoenix served as producers. Raymond Kirk, Aidan Elliott, and Michael Pruss executive produced. Napoleon is an Columbia Pictures and Apple Studios production.
The Plot: Napoleon is a spectacle-filled action epic that details the checkered rise and fall of the iconic French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, played by Oscar-winner Joaquin Phoenix. Against a stunning backdrop of large-scale filmmaking orchestrated by legendary director Ridley Scott, the film captures Bonaparte’s relentless journey to power through the prism of his addictive, volatile relationship with his one true love, Josephine, showcasing his visionary military and political tactics against some of the most dynamic practical battle sequences ever filmed.
