Alexander, the epic film starring Colin Farrell and Angelina Jolie, makes its basic cable premiere on the AMC network this Saturday, June 21st at 8pm/7c.
The film about the legendary Macedonian King Alexander the Great was co-written directed by Oliver Stone and has an all-star cast that also includes Anthony Hopkins, Val Kilmer, Rosario Dawson, Jared Leto, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, and Christopher Plummer.
Check out the behind-the-scenes video below from Alexander.
AMC will air the film again on the following days/times:
Sun. June 22 @ 8PM | 7C
Mon. July 7 @ 8PM | 7C
Official site: www.amctv.com/movienights/premiere_alexander
Synopsis
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.
Video
I was wise enough to not write this film off completely after the initial box office release, knowing it was cut way down. Instead I waited, and eventually the fully realised vision was restored and released in the ‘Alexander: Revisited’ edition, which is an enormous, rich, in-depth, blood-thirsty and satisfying telling of his life. Don’t even bother with the theatrical release, it’s utterly soulless. Grab ‘Revisited’ and see Stone’s original vision. It’s magnificent.