As far as Scott is concerned, he is certainly among
the few contemporary directors able to carry out
such an ambitious plan and direct a historical epic
that is certainly going to go down in history as
one of the best. Ridley Scott’s opus includes such
hits as Alien, Blade Runner, Kingdom of Heaven,
and Gladiator, all of which are frequently quoted
as being the best movies in history. At this very
moment, Ridley Scott is working on Gucci for
MGM, a movie featuring Lady Gaga in the role of
murderess Patrizia Reggiani, alongside the likes of
Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Adam Driver, Jared Leto
and Jeremy Irons. After Gucci, Scott is set to being
production on Kitbag.
The movie’s title, as we know, stems from the
phrase “There’s a general’s staff hidden in every
soldier’s kitbag”, which perfectly describes
Napoleon’s military career in France after the
revolutionary events of 1789.
It was reported that the deal for Kitbag was
somewhere in the lines of the deal that Apple
made last fall when it acquired the rights to
Emancipation, the Antoine Fuqua-directed
thriller starring Will Smith. Along with them,
Apple has also acquired the war film Greyhound
starring Tom Hanks, as well as the heavily
anticipated adaptation of Eric Roth’s Killers of the
Flower Moon, which will see Leonardo DiCaprio
star alongside Robert De Niro.