Stanley Kubrick didn’t just direct some of the greatest movies ever made – he tried to direct several of the greatest movies that ended up never getting made. His most ambitious unrealized project was Napoleon, an epic biopic of the French conqueror. Kubrick began planning the film after the success of 2001: A Space Odyssey. By his own estimation, he read around 500 books about Bonaparte to research for the script (which is available on the Internet, if you’re interested in reading it). | Full Story