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Excuse me, but wasn't this lifted from Renault?'Val Kilmer on Oliver Stone's Alexander
Only a few short days after ComingSoon.net talked to Angelina Jolie about her upcoming role in Oliver Stone's historical epic, Alexander, Val Kilmer, in town to discuss his role in David Mamet's Spartan, also had some interesting things to say about this highly-anticipated movie and working with Stone and Jolie. (Warning: There are a few spoilers for the movie.)"I was the big, drunken, fat happy king. King Philip," Kilmer revealed with a chuckle, "There's a party for his wedding where I kiss four other women, and my wife, Queen Olympias (played by Jolie) isn't even there, and then on page 5, he rapes her. He hasn't been with her for a while, and they start fighting. I knock over her basket full of snakes, and the snakes are all over the floor. I then pull the sheets back when we're on the bed, and my five-year-old son, young Alexander, is in the bed. I'm so horrified that I leave. All through the film, he thinks that Olympius is destroying his psyche, and she ends up doing that, which is kind of why he dies."Although she is responsible for the death of his character, he still had some nice things to say about his "queen". "Angelina is fantastic. Anybody that good is not an accident. The job is to make it look easy and she does that. She is a very impressive actress, who works really hard and she's very thorough. She's fantastic in the role, because she plays this very powerful character, who outlives them all. And she looks great old, too!"Alexander will be Kilmer's second film with Oliver Stone after The Doors, and he offered a bit of insight into the director's drive and personality. "Mellow is not a word you can attach to Oliver," he told us, "He's always been interested in the spiritual aspects of life, but now he's more dedicated to it. Now, he has more of a young man's sort of mentality and seeing what he can get away with it. He's always been very frank and open about his lifestyle, as he is now. I find him very sincere about that, and I'm very impressed with him as a storyteller. He really wants to know as much as he can about something, and I think that it's evident where his mind has grown as an American with Nixon, since it's a total reversal from where he started off. He hated the guy forever, but he grew to understand that everyone represents something. I think Alexander will probably be his best film; it's the weirdest epic that you'll eve

Alexander will be Kilmer's second film with Oliver Stone after The Doors, and he offered a bit of insight into the director's drive and personality. "Mellow is not a word you can attach to Oliver," he told us, "He's always been interested in the spiritual aspects of life, but now he's more dedicated to it. Now, he has more of a young man's sort of mentality and seeing what he can get away with it. He's always been very frank and open about his lifestyle, as he is now. I find him very sincere about that, and I'm very impressed with him as a storyteller. He really wants to know as much as he can about something, and I think that it's evident where his mind has grown as an American with Nixon, since it's a total reversal from where he started off. He hated the guy forever, but he grew to understand that everyone represents something. I think Alexander will probably be his best film; it's the weirdest epic that you'll ever see! One thing that is amazing, and it's really well done, is that you go from his childhood, being taught by Aristotle, right through to his death at 37 or 38 years old."Kilmer also mentioned that he would love to play Batman again, and that the real reason he didn't do Batman and Robin was because he was already committed to being in The Saint, debunking long-time rumors about a conflict with director Joel Schumacher.The actor's next movie pairs him with Robert Downey Jr. for an L.A. detective story, directed by Shane Black, writer of the first Lethal Weapon movie. It is currently called Kiss Kiss Bang Bang,Look for more on Spartan sometime in the next day or two.

I have heard Robin Lane Fox contributed to this flick but if you recall Platoon, Stone combined three different recon missions in the field and blend them together. He was infatuated with Alexander during those days and ever since. I wouldn't be surprised he incorporated the thoughts of other authors for ATG. If you remember *The Doors* Morrison (Val Kilmer) being heavily medicated, was staring at a mirror, and what did he see, none other than Alexander the Great, that was my best moment in the movie! Morrison was another person, besides many others, who looked upon Alexander as the worlds first rock star (super star) for his believes in ATG and other ancient gods ran deep in his thoughts.I hope this thread makes sense and is fitting to your post.

Yes, Morrison was indeed infatuated with Alexander. Before his career was launched, Morrison's stylist was asking him how he wanted his hair cut. Morrison replied, "i want to look lilke Alexander the Great"...