De Italiaanse producer Dino De Laurentiis (Serpico, Army of darkness, Hannibal) heeft verzekerd dat zijn film over Alexander de Grote, met hoofdrollen voor Leonardo DiCaprio en Nicole Kidman, er zeker gaat komen.

De film werd al in 2003 aangekondigd maar het project werd stopgezet toen Oliver Stone ook bleek te werken aan een film over de legendarische krijgsheer.

[eng]"We will shoot the film in one year's time, and it will be the Alexander that everyone has been waiting for. I don't want to hit out against Oliver Stone, who merits respect. But his picture was certainly flawed, and was missing the spine of a screenplay.

Epic films are difficult to do well. King Arthur was also flawed. It badly copied ideas from the third film in my schedule, which is based on Valerio Massimo Manfredi's novel, The Last Legion."[/eng]

De regie van de film is in handen van Baz Luhrmann (Moulin Rouge).