DREAMWORKS TEAMS UP WITH "GLADIATOR" PARTNER UNIVERSAL FOR "ALEXANDER THE GREAT", SCHEDULED FOR A FALL 2003 START DATE, WHILE WARNERS AND INTERMEDIA GREEN LIGHT OLIVER STONE'S COMPETING FEATURE TO BEGIN FILMING IN THE SPRING ... Warner Bros. have announced they will be the domestic distributors for Oliver Stone's "ALEXANDER THE GREAT", allowing producer Intermedia to greenlight the picture for a June start. Colin "Minority Report" Farrell will star as the Macedonian conqueror.
This gives the Stone picture an advance start date on Baz Luhrmann's "ALEXANDER THE GREAT", financed by Universal and DreamWorks, starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Producer Dino De Laurentiis announced in August that Luhrmann and DiCaprio would reunite in Morocco in January to shoot Ted Tally's screenplay ...
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