Ridley Scott filmed his new historical epic Napoleon, starring Joaquin Phoenix, in just over sixty days despite the scale of the film.
The Big Picture Apple Studios' Napoleon is set to feature some of the largest battle sequences ever put on screen, with the film slated to depict some of the most consequential wartime moments from the titular French general. Despite this, though, director Ridley Scott recently revealed that he was able to shoot the entire film in just 62 days — a remarkably short shooting schedule for a project whose runtime is over two and a half hours.
"The best thing for my career I could ever have done was to go to the art schools I went to. I can really draw. After seven years of art school, you bloody better well be able to. I’ll draw all my own storyboards. Every frame is drawn from close-up to medium shots. The locations I haven’t found yet – I’ll imagine the location. So we’ll look for that location. Visual narrative is my strength. I find it very easy, therefore, to handle eight or 11 cameras at once.
"By having 11 to 14 cameras, we shot Napoleon in 62 days. I’m doing Gladiator 2 now in 54 days, because I’m not doing 50 takes with one camera, on one shot, and then turning around. This normal fight [scene] that could take anything up to a month, I’ll take six days."
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