The movie would follow the life of the historical figure Alexander the Great. The mighty reviewer of scripts, Stax, got his hands on Peter Buchanan's script and gave it the once over. Buchman's draft is a visual feast.
Every page offers some new breathtaking vista or sequence to behold.
What truly impressed me is how Buchman manages to keep this an intimate story about a human being despite all the grandeur he's surrounded by. My biggest gripe with the script for Gates of Fire was that it needed a central character for me to become involved with and its secondary characters, while certainly appealing, were similarly lacking. Alexander, on the other hand, manages to provide its anti-hero and his inner circle with numerous moments to humanize them. I really don't have anything negative to say about Peter Buchman's script for Alexander. It's been almost 45 years since Richard Burton starred in Alexander the Great and I think it's high time for Hollywood to revisit this legend.