No actor in Hollywood hits it out of the park every time, but few have experienced disaster on such a scale as Colin Farrell and Oliver Stone, who poured everything they had into historical epic Alexander, only to see the long-gestating passion project go up in flames.
The Academy Award-winning director had been working on the film for decades, and eventually mounted a production that was every bit as lavish as its subject. Instantly pegged as a potential awards season front-runner in the post-Gladiator landscape, things couldn’t have gone much worse.