Empire Magazine Issue 418 (September 2023)

Empire Magazine Issue 418 (September 2023) Napoleon Get ready, everyone: Ridley Scott is back with a new historical epic, teaming up once more with his Gladiator star Joaquin Phoenix in Napoleon. And beyond all the blood and the battles, it’s set to be a psychological portrait of the French Emperor’s tumultuous relationship with his wife Joséphine – an intimate story told on the grandest scale possible. Inside the new issue of Empire, we enter the world of Napoleon with Scott and his Napoleon and Joséphine – Phoenix and Vanessa Kirby – and get the lowdown on a biopic that breaks all the rules.Napoleon - What happens when one of the all-time-great directors takes on the story of one of history’s most infamous invaders? You get Napoleon – a film with all of the gigantic scale of Ridley Scott’s historical epics, but that aims to burrow deep into the complex psyches of Napoleon Bonaparte and Joséphine de Beauharnais. Empire speaks to Scott, Joaquin Phoenix and Vanessa Kirby to get to the h