The Greatest Movie Never Made

For over 40 years, fans of legendary auteur director, Stanley Kubrick, have endlessly speculated on the details of his most ambitions unrealized project: a biopic of French emperor, Napoleon Bonaparte, was slated for production immediately after the release of 1968's 2001: A Space Odyssey but was canceled after film studios decided production would be too costly. Fortunately for all film buffs, art book purveyors, Taschen, released a sumptuous tribute to the unmade silver screen masterpiece featuring a selection of Kubrick's detailed research and pre-production notes. Hidden inside a carved-out reproduction of a Napoleon history book are all of the director's archives cleverly categorized into ten small books including costume studies, location scouting photographs, script drafts, correspondence and the complete original treatment never made available to the public. Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon: The Greatest Movie Never Made is the closest we'll ever get to the once would-be film. This collector's edition is limited to 1,500 numbered copies and is well worth the $700 price tag.