Oliver Stone In Thailand To Finish 'Alexander'


Oliver Stone is set to begin shooting scenes for his historical epic Alexander in Thailand this week, according to sources AP.

Hundreds of Thai and foreign cast and crew members will gather Thursday to start filming scenes for the movie about the life of Alexander the Great, which stars Colin Farrell as the Macedonian conqueror.

Alexander also stars Angelina Jolie, Anthony Hopkins and Val Kilmer. It wasn't immediately known whether any of the actors is visiting Thailand for the filming.

"It is a large-scale movie. We are shooting large-scale scenes here. We are involving elephants," he told AP, without elaborating. "We have a lot of participants, both in front of and in back of the camera, who are Thai."

The shoot is expected to last several weeks and end in early February.

This is the final stop for the Alexander production crew, which began shooting last September and already has shot parts of the film in Morocco and at studios outside London.

Stone wrote and is directing the film about the relentless conqueror Alexander, who was born in 356 B.C. and had assembled the largest empire the world had ever seen by age 32.

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