from Warner Bros.
Directed by
Oliver Stone
Starring
Colin Farrell (Alexander the Great)
Angelina Jolie (Olympias)
Rosario Dawson (Roxane)
Anthony Hopkins (Ptolemy)
Val Kilmer (Philip, King of Macedonia)
Jared Leto (Hephaistion)
Jonathan Rhys-Meyers (Cassander)
Denis Conway (Nearchus)
Connor Paolo (Young Alexander)
Patrick Carroll (Young Hephaistion)
Ian Beattie (Antigonus)
Raz Degan (Darius III)
Elliot Cowan (Young Ptolemy)
Christopher Plummer (Aristotle)
Rory McCann (Crateros)
Joseph Morgan (Philotas)
Brian Blessed (Leonidas)
Laird Macintosh (Neoptolomus)
Gary Stretch (Cleitus)
John Kavanagh (Parmenion)
Nick Dunning (Attalus)
Marie Meyer (Eurydice)
Neil Jackson (Perdiccas)
Garrett Lombard (Leonnatus)
Chris Aberdein (Polyperchon)
Francisco Bosch (Bagoas)
Annelise Hesme (Stateira)
Written by
Christopher Kyle
Rated: 
(for violence and some sexuality/nudity) |
 The story is an epic that is as daring, bold and ambitious as its subject, a relentless conqueror who by the age of 32 had amassed the greatest empire the world had ever seen. Past and present collide to form the puzzle of the protagonist, a tapestry of triumphs and tragedies in which childhood memories and Alexander's rise to power unfold side by side with the later day expansion of his empire, its gradual decline and ultimate downfall. From his youth, fueled by dreams of glory and adventure, to his lonely and mysterious death as a ruler of a vast state, from the tumultuous relationship with his parents -- a powerful king and a queen determined to put her child on the throne at any cost, including murder -- to the rousing "band of brothers" bond with his closest companions and vast army, as they fought from the sun-scorched battlefields of the Persian Empire across the snow-peaked mountains of India, the film chronicles Alexander's journey to become a living legend. For as Virgil wrote, "Fortune favors the bold." And no king or emperor, either before or after, ever achieved such fortune, or indeed was so bold, as Alexander the Great.
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