Alexander: The Ultimate Cut [Blu-ray]

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
Rating:	NR
Source:	Warner Home Video
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Language:	English
Time:	3:27:00

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 der Große
Angelina Jolie	Olympias
Val Kilmer	Philip
Anthony Hopkins	Ptolemy
Rosario Dawson	Roxane
Jared Leto	Hephaistion
Christopher Plummer	Aristoteles
David Bedella	Scribe
Connor Paolo	Young Alexander
Jessie Kamm	Child Alexander
Tim Pigott-Smith	Omen Reader
Gary Stretch	Cleitus
John Kavanagh	Parmenion
Nick Dunning	Attalus
Marie Meyer	Eurydice
Joseph Morgan	Philotas
Ian Beattie	Antiginous
Denis Conway	Nearchus
Michael Dixon	Dimnus
Neil Jackson	Perdiccas
Elliot Cowan	Ptolemy
Raz Degan	Darius III
Bin Bunluerit	Poros
Féodor Atkine	Roxane's Father
Chris Aberdein	Polyperchon
Rab Affleck	Attalus' Henchman
Brian Blessed	Wrestling Trainer
Francisco Bosch	Bagoas
Fiona O'Shaughnessy	Nurse
Jaran Ngamdee	Indian Prince
Garrett Lombard	Leonnatus
Robert Earley	Young Ptolemy,Young Ptolemy
Patrick Carroll	Young Hephaistion
Peter Williamson	Young Nearchus
Morgan Christopher Ferris	Young Cassander
Aleczander Gordon	Young Perdiccas
Mick Lally	Horse Seller
Jonathan Rhys Meyers	Cassander
Rory McCann	Crateros
Annelise Hesme	Stateira
Toby Kebbell	Pausanius
Erol Sander	Persian Prince
Stéphane Ferrara	Bactrian Commander
Tadhg Murphy	Dying Soldier
Jean Le Duc	Fat Eunuch
Tsouli Mohammed	Persian Chamberlain
Laird MacIntosh	Greek Officer
Harry Kent	Cup Bearer #1
Sam Green	Cup Bearer #2
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
Vangelis	Composer

Technical Credits

Oliver Stone

Christopher Kyle

Laeta Kalogridis

Oliver Stone	Director,Screenwriter,Producer
Christopher Kyle	Screenwriter
Laeta Kalogridis	Screenwriter
Iain Smith	Producer,Producer
Thomas Schühly	Producer
Moritz Borman	Producer
Juliette Menager	Casting
Lucinda Syson	Casting
Rebecca Roper	Casting
Matthias Deyle	Executive Producer
Michael Elson	Executive Producer
Martin Hobbs	Executive Producer
Paul Rassam	Executive Producer
Alistair Anderson	Special Effects
Volker Schauz	Producer
Jon Kilik	Producer
Pierre Grunstein	Executive Producer
Rachid Abbad	Stunts
Vincent Arnardi	Sound Effects
Hans de Weers	Producer
Aslan Nadery	Producer
Tabrez Noorani	Producer
Gianni Nunnari	Producer
Santa Pestonji	Producer
Pravesh Sahni	Producer
Fernando Sulichin	Producer
Aurelia Abate	Special Effects
Frédéric Attal	Sound Effects,Sound Editor
Selim Azzazi	Sound Effects,Sound Editor
Alexander Beddow	Sound Effects
Julien Bourdeau	Sound Effects
Pierre Michel-Estival	Special Effects
Rowley Irlam	Stunts
Theo Kypri	Stunts
Rodney Cooke	Stunts
Ben Cooke	Stunts
Glenn Foster	Stunts
Maurice Lee	Stunts
Ryan Carey	Stunts
Steve Drage	Stunts
Jason Hunjan	Stunts
Luis Miguel Arranz Losa	Stunts
Antonio Marsh	Stunts
Gabriele Ragusa	Stunts
Louie Horvath	Stunts
Luke Kearney	Stunts
Juan Manuel Cabrera Pascual	Stunts
Stuart Thorp	Stunts
Angelo Ragusa	Stunts
David Ware	Stunts
Campbell Rousselle	Stunts
Mark Rounthwaite	Stunts
Paul Shapcott	Stunts
Joel Proust	Stunts
Ben Dimmock	Stunts
Ricky English	Stunts
Mike Lambert	Stunts
Philippe Losson	Stunts
Florian Robin	Stunts
Innocencio Losada Silva	Stunts
Malcolm Huse	Key Grip
Somchart "Deang" Punkaew	Key Grip
Levan Doran	Stunts
Pedro Garcia Garcia	Stunts
Sean Button	Stunts
Seng Kawee	Stunts
Jose Antonio Gutierrez Sanchez	Stunts
Luis Miguel Arranz Villareal	Stunts
Jean-Paul Mugel	Sound/Sound Designer
Vincent Montrobert	Sound Editor
Thomas Schuhly	Producer

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