Guccione agreed to finance Caligula on two conditions: 1) that it would be tarted up into a lavish, flamboyant spectacle akin to the Sword and Sandal epics of the 50s and 2) that sex would be incorporated to promote the magazine. And it's actually not his first film, either Guccione previously produced Chinatown. Though Vidal and Franco Rossellini (Roberto's nephew) originally only intended for it to be a modestly-budgeted historical drama, they were unable to attain funding for it and sought help from none other than the founder of Penthouse magazine, Bob Guccione. It all began with Gore Vidal writing a screenplay about the life of the infamous Roman Emperor Caligula, based on an unproduced television mini-series by Roberto Rossellini. ![]() And never, in the history of this website, will there ever be a movie more difficult than Caligula to describe. ![]() Never, in the history of the world, will there ever be another movie like Caligula.
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