Alexander

The Story

The true story of one of history's most luminous and influential leaders, Alexander the Great-a man who had conquered 90% of the known world by the age of twenty-seven. Alexander led his virtually invincible Greek and Macedonian armies through 22,000 miles of sieges and conquests in just eight years, and by the time of his death at the age of thiry-two had forged an empire unlike any the world had ever seen. The story chronicles Alexander's path to becoming a living legend, from a youth fueled by dreams of myth, glory and adventure to his lonely death as a ruler of a vast Empire. Alexander is the incredible story of a life that united the Known World and proved, if nothing else, fortune favors the bold.

Cast

Colin Farrell ........................ Alexander
Jared Leto ....................... Hephaistion
Joseph Morgan ..................... Philotas
Angelina Jolie ...................... Olympias
Val Kilmer ................................... Philip
Jonathan Rhys Meyers ... Cassander
Anthony Hopkins .......... Old Ptolemy
Elliot Cowan ........................... Ptolemy
Ian Beattie ......................... Antigonus
Rosario Dawson ..................... Roxane
Jessie Kamm ............. Child Alexander
Connor Paolo ......... Young Alexander
Christopher Plummer ............ Aristotle
Gary Stretch .............................. Cleitus

Alexander: "Conquer your fear, and I promise you, you will conquer death."

Hephaistion: "You know better than any great deeds are donned by men who took, and never regretted. You're Alexander! Pity and grief will only destroy you."
Alexander: "Have I become so arrogant that I am blind?"
Hephaistion: "Sometimes to expect the best from everyone is arrogance."
Alexander: "Then it's true. I have become a tyrant!"
Hephaistion: "No! But perhaps a stranger. We've come too far. They don't understand you anymore."
Alexander: "They speak of Phillip now as if I were a passing cloud, soon to be forgotten. I've failed. Utterly."
Hephaistion: "You're mortal. And they know it. And they forgive you because you make them proud of themselves."

Philip: [to Young Alexander] "A king isn't born, Alexander, he is made. By steel and by suffering. A king must know how to hurt those he loves. It's lonely. Ask anyone. Ask Heracles. Ask any of them. Fate is cruel. No man or woman can be too powerful or too beautiful without disaster befalling. They laugh when you rise too high. And they crush everything you've built with a whim. What glory they give in the end, they take away. They make of us slaves."

Philip: "I'm sure you remember Achilles and the tales of Troy."
Young Alexander: "He's my favorite."
Philip: "Why?"
Young Alexander: "Because he loved Patroclus, and avenged his death. Because he lived without fear."
Philip: "Some say he was a hotheaded fool, who fought only for himself and not for Greece."
Young Alexander: "But he was a hero! The greatest at Troy."
Philip: "And his fate?"
Young Alexander: "That he must die young, with great glory."
Philip: "Did he have a choice?"
Young Alexander: "Oh yes. He could've had a long life, but there would be no glory."

Old Ptolemy: "On the tenth of June, a month short of his 33rd year, Alexander's great heart finally gave out. And, as he vowed, he joined Hephaistion. But in his short life he achieved, without doubt, the mythic glory of his ancestor; Achilles. And more."

Alexander: "May all those who come here after us know, when they see this alter, that titans were once here."

Alexander: "In the end, when it's over, all that matters is what you've done."

Old Ptolemy: "The truth is never simple and yet it is. The truth is we did kill him. By silence we consented... because we couldn't go on. But by Ares, what did we have to look forward to but to be discarded in the end like Cleitus? After all this time, to give away our wealth to Asian sycophants we despised? Mixing the races? Harmony? Oh, he talked of these things. I never believe in his dream. None of us did. That's the truth of his life. The dreamers exhaust us. They must die before they kill us with their blasted dreams."