In 2005, a fake trailer for Gore Vidal’s Caligula was produced by artist Francesco Vezzoli for an alleged remake as a promotion for Versace’s new line of accessories. It was a parody, “ostensibly [promoting] a film about a mad Roman emperor who sleeps with his sister, executes his critics and presides over a crowd of ambisexual extras dressed only in the occasional accessory.” The trailer features Courtney Love as Caligula, Benicio del Toro as Macro, as well as Helen Mirren (making a guest cameo) as Tiberius. Milla Jovovich and Gerard Butler appear as Drusilla and Chaerea respectively. Vidal appears as himself. The trailer screened worldwide, including a showing at New York City’s Whitney Museum of American Art’s 2006 Whitney Biennial. –Wikipedia
I really don't know what to think of this. But when I'm affected in the way that this has affected me, I'm inclined to like it.
Este curioso trabajo de Francesco Vezzoli presentado, entre otros eventos, en la Mostra Internazzionale de Venecia, esta concebido como el trailer de un inexistente remake de Caligula, la famosa superproducción porno de Tinto Brass, basada, a su vez, en la prescindible novela escrita por Gore Vidal (quién termino renegando del resultadofinal de aquella y hace una aparición especial en este corto). El asunto resulta bastante divertido, debido al tono de chacota manejado por el multiestelar reparto y, sobre todo, por enterarse de la existencia de una buena cantidad de bandejos que se fueron con la finta y que siguen esperando ansiosamente el "gran estreno" de la cinta "completa".