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WARNER BROS. YANKS ALEXANDER AWAY FROM INCREDIBLES Thursday, September 23 2004 
Alexander
the
Great's
greatest
enemy
may
not
be
Darius
of
Persia
but
a
family
of
superheroes
known
as
The
Incredibles
--
or
so
it
seemed
Wednesday
as
Warner
Bros.
announced
that
it
had
decided
to
move
the
opening
of
Oliver
Stone's
$150-million
Alexander
from
Nov.
5,
when
it
was
due
to
face
the
latest
Pixar
animated
film
about
the
superheroes,
to
Nov.
24,
when
it
will
be
up
against
Flight
of
the
Phoenix,
Christmas
with
(more)FARRELL ON ALEXANDER: 'IT'S NOT A GAY FILM!' Thursday, January 29 2004 
In
an
apparent
attempt
to
dispel
widespread
speculation
about
how
his
Alexander
the
Great
film
will
approach
the
issue
of
homosexuality,
Colin
Farrell,
who
appears
in
the
title
role,
has
told
a
gay-oriented
website
in
the
U.K.
that
the
film
will
not
dwell
on
the
character's
sexuality.
Interviewed
by
the
website
Gay.com
<http://uk.gay.com/>,
Farrell
said,
"There
may
be
details
of
Alexander's
sexuality
in
the
film
but
[director
Oliver
Stone]
wanted
to
portray
the
figure
accurately
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Warner Bros. pushed back the opening date of Oliver Stone's Alexander from Nov. 5 to Nov. 24 because it wanted Stone to cut some of the love scenes between Alexander, played by Colin Farrell and his male lover Bagoas, played by Francisco Bosch, according to MSNBC.com's "Scoop" column. It quoted an unnamed insider as saying, "Some of the suits at Warner Bros. think that the movie-going public just isn't ready to see that. ... There's some pretty heated arguments going on over it." Alexander is depicted as a bisexual in the film, which also includes heterosexual love scenes involving the title character. A Warner Bros. spokeswoman declined to discuss the report, saying "We wouldn't talk about anything involving the process of making a movie."
