The Coronation of the Emperor Napoleon I. (1804-1806). Painting by Jacques-Louis David. Louvre Museum, Paris (Photo by Leemage/Corbis via Getty Images) ...

You will not see the entire story of the infamous Emperor of France in Ridley Scott’s two-and-a-half hour “Napoleon” (Apple Original Films and Columbia Pictures). Scott’s screenwriter David Scarpa ...

PERE DAVID AND NAPOLEON. Share full article. Jan. 13, 1884. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from January 13, 1884, Page 4 Buy Reprints.

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year’s most talked-about scripts continues with Napoleon, David Scarpa‘s screenplay that fuels Ridley Scott‘s historical epic ...

By David Rooney Chief Film Critic Abel Gance’s 1927 French silent film, also titled Napoleon, is the most famous screen portrayal of the historical figure. It spent five-and-a-half hours ...