Cary Elwes
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
None, none.
I mean, 2001 A Space Odyssey is nothing like Barry Lyndon.
No, and Barry Lyndon, when it came along, I saw that in 70 millimeter when it came out, and it was immense, just immense.
2001.
No, no.
Barry Lyndon.
Barry Lyndon.
Beautiful.
I love 2001.
Beautiful movie.
But beautiful film.
He had wanted to make Napoleon, a movie about Napoleon's life.
MGM, who just made a fortune off of him with 2001,
bought the rights to a film called Waterloo with Rod Steiger, directed by Sergei Bondarchuk.
And Bondarchuk had done great with War and Peace, right?
And then he put out this film with Steiger as Napoleon and it bombed.
And MGM came to Stanley Kubrick and said, yeah, we did this behind your back.
We're sorry, but we bought this film and it didn't do any business.
So...
and they actually turned him down.