Alexander

Director: Oliver Stone Oliver Stone

Overview

The fourth film to chronicle the life of fourth-century B.C. ruler Alexander the Great, Oliver Stone's Alexander stars Colin Farrell as the titular Macedonian conqueror. The film follows the young king as he leads his forces on a bloody empirical conquest across the known world, taking large parts of Asia and the Middle East to amass a giant empire, all by the time he turned 25. Anthony Hopkins co-stars as Ptolemy I along with Rosario Dawson as Roxane, Angelina Jolie as Olympias, Jared Leto as Hephaistion, Val Kilmer as King Philip II, and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers as Cassander.

Product Details

Release Date:	06/03/2014
UPC:	0883929415151
Original Release:	2004
Source:	Warner Home Video
Time:	3:27:00
Sales rank:	16,228

Special Features

The Ultimate Cut commentary by Oliver Stone; Documentary The Real Alexander and the World He Made; Feature-length documentary by Sean Stone - Fight Against Time: Oliver Stone's Alexander

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Colin Farrell	Alexander
Angelina Jolie	Olympias
Val Kilmer	King Philip II
Jared Leto	Hephaistion
Anthony Hopkins	Old Ptolemy
Rosario Dawson	Roxane
Christopher Plummer	Aristotle
Tim Pigott-Smith	Omen Reader
Connor Paolo	Young Alexander
Gary Stretch	Cleitus
John Kavanagh	Parmenion
Nick Dunning	Attalus
Marie Meyer	Eurydice
Elliot Cowan	Ptolemy
Joseph Morgan	Philotas
Ian Beattie	Antiginous
Denis Conway	Nearchus
Neil Jackson	Perdiccas
Rory McCann	Crateros
Raz Degan	Darius
Annelise Hesme	Stateira
Féodor Atkine	Roxane's Father
Jonathan Rhys Meyers	Cassander
Brian Blessed	Wrestling Trainer
David Bedella	Scribe
Jessie Kamm	Child Alexander
Fiona O'Shaughnessy	Nurse
Patrick Carroll	Young Hephaistion
Peter Williamson	Young Nearchus
Morgan Christopher Ferris	Young Cassander
Robert Earley	Young Ptolemy
Aleczander Gordon	Young Perdiccas
Mick Lally	Horse Seller
Garrett Lombard	Leonnatus
Chris Aberdein	Polyperchon
Michael Dixon	Campfire Soldier
Erol Sander	Persian Prince
Stephane Ferrara	Bactrian Commander
Tadhg Murphy	Dying Soldier
Jean Le Duc	Fat Eunuch
Francisco Bosch	Bagoas
Tsouli Mohammed	Persian Chamberlain
Toby Kebbell	Pausanius
Laird Macintosh	Greek Officer
Rab Affleck	Attalus' Henchman
Harry Kent	Cup Bearer #1
Sam Green	Cup Bearer #2
Bin Bunluerit	Indian King
Jaran Ngamdee	Indian Prince
Brian McGrath	Doctor
Suzanne Bullock	Roxane Dancer
Kate Elouise	Roxane Dancer
Gillian Grueber	Roxane Dancer
Michelle Lukes	Roxane Dancer
Anjali Mehra	Roxane Dancer
Anthony Jean Marie Kurt	Bagoas Dancer
Marta Barahona	Bagoas Dancer
Monica Zamora	Bagoas Dancer
Benny Maslov	Bagoas Dancer
Tania Matos	Bagoas Dancer
Leighton Morrison	Bagoas Dancer
Isaac Mulllins	Bagoas Dancer
Monica Perego	Bagoas Dancer
Matthew Powell	Bagoas Dancer
Nic Raine	Conductor

Technical Credits

Oliver Stone

Laeta Kalogridis

Christopher Kyle

Oliver Stone	Director,Screenwriter
Karim Abouobayd	Production Manager
Lyndsay Allen	Consultant/advisor
Frederic Attal	Sound Editor
Selim Azzazi	Sound Editor
Emma Bailey	Makeup
Barbara Taylor	Makeup
Jenny Beavan	Asst. Director,Costumes/Costume Designer
Peter Bennett	Asst. Director
John Bernard	Consultant/advisor
Jacqueline Bhavnani	Makeup
Moritz Borman	Producer
Frabrizio Caracciolo Di Brienza	Consultant/advisor
Al Burgess	Production Manager
Sean Button	Stunts
Ryan Carey	Stunts
Budd Carr	Musical Direction/Supervision
Nana Chiabaut	Makeup
Chaiyan (Lek) Chunsuttiwat	Art Director
Rebecca Cole	Makeup
Rodney Cook	Stunts
Ben Cooke	Stunts
Stephane Cressend	Art Director
Linda de Vetta	Makeup
Jean-Claude Deguara	Animator
Matthias Deyle	Executive Producer
Ben Dimmock	Stunts
Levan Doran	Stunts
Steve Drage	Stunts
Polly Earnshaw	Makeup
Michael Elson	Executive Producer
Ricky English	Stunts
Peter Field	Camera Operator
Sheila Flynn	Makeup
Glenn Foster	Stunts
Pedro Garcia Garcia	Stunts
Piers Gielgud	Choreography
Clare Renata Gilbert	Makeup
Paul Gooch	Makeup
Fiona Greenland	Consultant/advisor
Ahmed Hatimi	Asst. Director
Yann Herve	Editor
Frances Hill	Costumes/Costume Designer
Martin Hobbs	Executive Producer
Hopkins-Smith-Barden	Casting
Kerry Hormbrey	Makeup
Louie Horvath	Stunts
Jason Hunjan	Stunts
Rowley Irlam	Stunts
Cindy Irving	Production Manager
Zinedine Ibnou Jabal	Asst. Director
Annabel Jardella	Makeup
Deborah Jarvis	Makeup
David Jones	Makeup
Joule Studio	Casting
Abhijati Jusakul	Asst. Director
Laeta Kalogridis	Screenwriter
Seng Kawee	Stunts
Luke Kearney	Stunts
Jon Kilik	Producer
Christopher Kyle	Screenwriter
Theo Kypri	Stunts
Uxue Laguardia	Makeup
Mike Lambert	Stunts
Jane Law	Costumes/Costume Designer
Maurice Lee	Stunts
James Lewis	Art Director
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones	Consultant/advisor
Luis Miguel Arranz Losa	Stunts
Philippe Losson	Stunts
Gary Machin	Makeup
Alex Marquez	Editor
Antonio Marsh	Stunts
Nuria Mbomio	Makeup
Juliette Menager	Casting
David Mense	Consultant/advisor
Vincent Montrobert	Sound Editor
Jean-Paul Mugel	Sound/Sound Designer
Mohamed Nesrate	Asst. Director
Sarah Nolte	Makeup
Thomas J. Nordberg	Editor
Juan Manuel Cabrera Pascual	Stunts
Tom Pestonji	Production Manager
Piya Pestonji	Production Manager
Kevin Phipps	Art Director
Sarah Pickering	Makeup
Paula Price	Makeup
Rodrigo Prieto	Cinematographer
Joel Proust	Stunts
Nikita Rae	Makeup
Gabriele Ragusa	Stunts
Angelo Ragusa	Stunts
Paul Rassam	Executive Producer
Natalie Reid	Makeup
Florian Robin	Stunts
Jan Roelfs	Production Designer
Rebecca Roper	Casting
Stuart Rose	Art Director
Mark Rounthwaite	Stunts
Campbell Rousselle	Stunts
Jose Antonio Gutierrez Sanchez	Stunts
Laura Schiavo	Makeup
Thomas Schühly	Producer
Paul Shapcott	Stunts
Michael Sharp	Production Manager
Innocencio Losada Silva	Stunts
Ailie Smith	Makeup
Iain Smith	Producer
Lesley Smith	Makeup
Simon Sothcott	Makeup
Lucinda Syson	Casting
Stuart Thorp	Stunts
Vangelis	Score Composer
Luis Miguel Arranz Villareal	Stunts
David Ware	Stunts
Simon Warnock	Asst. Director,Costumes/Costume Designer
Isabel While	Makeup
Rob Wilson	Associate Producer
Trevor Wood	Special Effects Supervisor
Jeremy Woodhead	Makeup
Tim Wooster	Camera Operator

Editorial Reviews

No stranger to controversy, filmmaker Oliver Stone got some people all fired up with this opulent, stirring historical epic about the charismatic warrior king who had conquered 90 percent of the known world by the time he was 25. At first glance, Irish actor and offscreen bad boy Colin Farrell might seem an odd choice to play the fourth-century B.C. Macedonian conqueror, but he grows into the role before one’s eyes, even commanding attention during the large-scale battle sequences. The most controversial aspects of the film are Alexander’s relationships with his boyhood friend Hephaistian (Jared Leto) and his mother, Olympias (Angelina Jolie, a ravishing presence, yet curiously channeling the accent of Maria Ouspenskaya, the Gypsy woman of Universal’s old Wolf Man movies). Stone’s references to Alexander’s alleged bisexuality enraged some scholars -- just as his diminishing of those sequences in the Director’s Cut available on DVD enraged some gay activists. The Alexander-Hephaistian subplot aside, the film’s drama highlight is in the king’s marriage to tempestuous Roxane (Rosario Dawson), and the duo’s steamy sex scene ranks with the most erotically charged in Stone’s oeuvre. Undeniably ambitious and generally successful in conveying the true scope of its subject’s accomplishments, Alexander shouldn’t be dismissed out of hand for Stone’s supposed transgressions. It’s a fascinating movie -- lavishly mounted, brilliantly staged, and vividly photographed. Whether things happened as the writer-director claims is debatable, but his version of the facts makes for compelling viewing.

Barnes & Noble - Ed Hulse