After the release of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick wanted to make a movie of the French General and Emperor "Napoleon Bonaparte". He spent year researching Napoleon's life don't the most minute detail, creating a vast amount of documents and notes of fact and reference material. He pitched his idea MGM and planned to film in Yugoslavia, using the Romanian army as extras. However, after three years of development, MGM decided not to go any further with the project after another Napoleon movie Waterloo bombed at the box office. Kubrick then planned to make the film with Warner Brothers but after A Clockwork Orange, he never went any further with the project and the film would go unmade.
