We "are in the process of mounting a major production" for a series in seven episodes for the American channel HBO from this script written in 1961, he assured at a press conference in Berlin.
Spielberg had already mentioned ten years ago the fact that he was developing for a mini-series this script written by the director of "2001: A Space Odyssey" and "A Clockwork Orange", and which has already inspired him "AI: Artificial Intelligence" (2001).
Kubrick, who died in 1999, never completed his own Napoleon biopic project.
Steven Spielberg is to be awarded an Honorary Golden Bear by the Berlinale for his entire career that has changed the history of cinema, from "Jaws" to "ET" via "La Schindler's List".
He also returned to the set of "The Fabelmans", his quasi-autobiographical film which is released on Wednesday in France, and tells the story of a child who tries to cope with the separation of his parents, and the parallel birth of the vocation of a filmmaker.
"We had to tell a story with lots of funny moments but also a lot of scenes that were traumatic. Just recreating these scenes was very hard," he said.
"I've always wanted to tell the story of my mother, my father and my sister, and this kind of incredible struggle between art and family. I've had it in my mind all my life, it has infused in all of my films, all of my films are personal and many are about family, but nothing is as personal as +The Fabelmans+".
At 76, Spielberg says he is "still so excited" by the cinema: finding a story to film, "it exceeds everything else in my life, except perhaps the birth of a child", he added .
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