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Stanley Kubrick's unrealized projects

The following is a list of unproduced Stanley Kubrick projects in roughly chronological order. During his long career, American film director Stanley Kubrick had worked on a number of projects which never progressed beyond the pre-production stage under his direction. Some of these projects fell into development hell or are officially cancelled.

Kubrick filming Barry Lyndon in 1975

The Burning Secret and Natural Child edit

In 1956, after the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (M.G.M.) studio turned down a request from Kubrick and his producer partner James B. Harris to film Paths of Glory, MGM then invited Kubrick to review the studio's other properties. Harris and Kubrick discovered Stefan Zweig's novel The Burning Secret, in which a young baron attempts to seduce a young Jewish woman by first befriending her twelve-year-old son, who eventually realizes the actual motives of the baron. Kubrick was enthusiastic about the novel and hired novelist Calder Willingham to write a screenplay; however, Hays Code restrictions hindered the realization of the project.[1] The script, once thought to be lost, was found in 2018 and is nearly completed to be developed by film-makers.[2] Kubrick had previously expressed interest in adapting a Willingham novel Natural Child, but was also prevented by the Production Code on that occasion.[3]

Napoleon edit

After the success of 2001, Kubrick planned a large-scale biographical film about Napoleon Bonaparte.[4] He "tried to see every film that was ever made on the subject," including Abel Gance's Napoléon and the Soviet film series War and Peace, neither of which he liked.[5] He also conducted research, read books about the French emperor, and wrote a preliminary screenplay which has since become available on the internet and has been published as part of a comprehensive collection of his research and preproduction work.[6] With the help of assistants, he meticulously created a card catalog of the places and deeds of Napoleon's inner circle during its operative years. Kubrick scouted locations, planning to film large portions of the film on location in France, in addition to the use of United Kingdom studios. The director was also going to film the battle scenes in Romania and had enlisted the support of the Romanian People's Army; senior army officers had committed 40,000 soldiers and 10,000 cavalrymen to Kubrick's film for the paper costume battle scenes.

In a conversation with the British Film Institute, Kubrick's brother-in-law Jan Harlan stated the film was set to enter production with David Hemmings as the title figure Napoleon (later, that role went to Jack Nicholson) and Audrey Hepburn as Kubrick's preference for the character Josephine. In notes that Kubrick wrote to his financial backers, preserved in the book The Kubrick Archives, Kubrick expresses uncertainty in regard to the progress of the Napoleon film and the final product; however, he also states that he expected to create "the best movie ever made."[7]

Napoleon was eventually canceled due to the prohibitive cost of location filming, the Western release of Sergei Bondarchuk's epic film version of Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace (1968), and the commercial failure of Bondarchuk's Napoleon-themed film Waterloo (1970). A significant portion of Kubrick's historical research would influence Barry Lyndon (1975), the storyline of which ends in 1789, approximately fifteen years prior to the commencement of the Napoleonic Wars.

In March 2013 Steven Spielberg announced his intention to create, in conjunction with Kubrick's family, a television miniseries based on Kubrick's screenplay.[8] In May 2016, HBO announced that it would produce a miniseries based on Kubrick's screenplay with Cary Joji Fukunaga as director.[9]

In August 2018, French opera singer and actor David Serero adapted the screenplay for the stage, in New York, in which he stars as Napoleon.[10][11][12] The play opened on August 23.[10]

In February 2023, Spielberg reaffirmed that the miniseries at HBO was still in development and was being in worked into a "large production" of a seven-part limited series.[13]

Aryan Papers edit

In 1976, Kubrick sought out a film idea that concerned the Holocaust and tried to persuade Isaac Bashevis Singer to contribute an original screenplay. Kubrick requested a "dramatic structure that compressed the complex and vast information into the story of an individual who represented the essence of this man-made hell." However, Singer declined, explaining to Kubrick, "I don't know the first thing about the Holocaust."[14][15]

In the early 1990s, Kubrick nearly entered the production stage of a film adaptation of Louis Begley's Wartime Lies, the story of a boy and his aunt as they are in hiding from the Nazi regime during the Holocaust—the first-draft screenplay, entitled Aryan Papers, was penned by Kubrick himself. Full Metal Jacket co-screenwriter Michael Herr reports that Kubrick had considered casting Julia Roberts or Uma Thurman as the aunt; eventually, Johanna ter Steege was cast as the aunt and Joseph Mazzello as the young boy. Kubrick traveled to the Czech city of Brno, as it was envisaged as a possible filming location for the scenes of Warsaw during wartime, and cinematographer Elemér Ragályi was selected by Kubrick to be the director of photography.[16]

Kubrick's work on Aryan Papers eventually ceased in 1995, as the director was influenced by the 1993 release of Spielberg's Holocaust-themed film Schindler's List. According to Kubrick's wife Christiane, an additional factor in Kubrick's decision was the increasingly depressing nature of the subject as experienced by the director. Kubrick eventually concluded that an accurate Holocaust film was beyond the capacity of cinema and returned his attention to the A.I. Artificial Intelligence film project.[17]

In 2005, William Monahan was hired to adapt Wartime Lies for Warner Independent Pictures in co-operation with John Wells Productions.[18]

In 2009, Kubrick's brother-in-law Jan Harlan announced his desire to produce the film and hire Ang Lee or Roman Polanski to direct.[19][20][21][22]

In 2020, it was reported that Luca Guadagnino hoped to direct the film,[23] and that he had examined Kubrick's papers on the project, held at the Stanley Kubrick Archive at University of the Arts London.[24]

Shadow on the Sun edit

In the early 1960s, Kubrick, a keen listener of BBC Radio, heard the radio serial drama Shadow on the Sun; written by Gavin Blakeney, Shadow on the Sun is a work of science fiction in which a virus is introduced to Earth through a meteorite landing.[25][26] At a time when Kubrick was looking for a new project, the director became reacquainted with Shadow on the Sun. Kubrick purchased screen rights from Blakeney in 1988 for £1,500.[27] Thereon, Kubrick read and annotated a script before moving onto A.I. Artificial Intelligence.[26] The tone of the unrealized project, as described by Anthony Frewin in The Kubrick Archives, is a cross between The War of the Worlds and Mars Attacks!.[28]

Lunatic at Large edit

On November 1, 2006, Kubrick's son-in-law Philip Hobbs announced that he would be shepherding a film treatment of Lunatic at Large. Kubrick had commissioned the project for treatment from noir pulp novelist Jim Thompson in the 1950s, but it had been lost until Hobbs uncovered a manuscript following Kubrick's death.[29] As of August 2011, this project is in development for future release, with the involvement of actors Scarlett Johansson and Sam Rockwell, and U.K. screenwriter Stephen R. Clarke.[30]

Unreleased screenplays edit

A number of screenplays that were written by Kubrick, who was either hired on a commission basis or was writing for his own projects, remain unreleased. One such screenplay is The German Lieutenant (co-written with Richard Adams), in which a group of German soldiers embark upon a mission during the final days of World War II;[31] During the time period when The German Lieutenant was planned as Kubrick's next production, the director explained his interest in making another war film:

... one of the attractions of a war or crime story is that it provides an almost unique opportunity to contrast an individual of our contemporary society with a solid framework of accepted value, which the audience becomes fully aware of, and which can be used as a counterpoint to a human, individual, emotional situation. Further, war acts as a kind of hothouse for forced, quick breeding of attitudes and feelings. Attitudes crystallize and come out into the open.[32]

Other examples of unreleased Kubrick screenplays are I Stole 16 Million Dollars, a fictionalized account of early 20th century Baptist minister turned safecracker Herbert Emmerson Wilson (the film was to be produced by Kirk Douglas' company Bryna Productions, despite Douglas' belief that the script was poorly written, and Cary Grant was approached for the lead role);[33] and a first draft of a script about the Mosby Rangers, a Confederate guerrilla force that was active during the American Civil War.[34]

Other projects edit

Marlon Brando contacted Kubrick asking him to direct a film adaptation of Charles Neider's Western novel The Authentic Death of Hendry Jones, featuring Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.[35][a] Brando was impressed, saying that "Stanley is unusually perceptive, and delicately attuned to people. He has an adroit intellect, and is a creative thinker—not a repeater, not a fact-gatherer. He digests what he learns and brings to a new project an original point of view and a reserved passion".[37] The two worked on a script for six months, begun by a then unknown Sam Peckinpah. Many disputes broke out over the project, and in the end, Kubrick distanced himself from what would become One-Eyed Jacks (1961).[38][b] Kubrick was then reported to have been fired and accepted a parting fee of $100,000,[40] though in a 1960 interview he claimed that he quit because "It had just become obvious to me that Brando wanted to direct the movie".[41] Kubrick's biographer LoBrutto states that for contractual reasons, Kubrick was not able to cite the real reason, but issued a statement saying that he had resigned "with deep regret because of my respect and admiration for one of the world's foremost artists".[42]

Kubrick was offered to direct both The Exorcist (1973) and Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977), but declined, despite once saying in 1966 to a friend that he had long desired to "make the world's scariest movie, involving a series of episodes that would play upon the nightmare fears of the audience".[43]

Kubrick was fascinated by the career of Nazi filmmaker Veit Harlan, his wife's uncle, and contemplated creating a film of the social circle that surrounded Joseph Goebbels. Although Kubrick worked on this project for several years, the director was unable to progress beyond a rough story outline.[44]

In 1972, Andrew Birkin (who had held a variety of roles in the production of 2001) offered Kubrick his screenplay based on Inside the Third Reich, the memoir of Nazi architect and Minister of Armaments Albert Speer. According to Birkin, Kubrick was impressed by the script, but turned it down on the grounds that it shouldn't be filmed by a Jewish director.[45] However, the 2020 documentary Speer Goes to Hollywood suggests Kubrick's involvement ended due to his insistence that the film acknowledge Speer's awareness of the Nazi extermination camps, of which Speer claimed ignorance.[46]

Umberto Eco, in response to an offer from Kubrick regarding a film adaptation of Eco's 1988 novel Foucault's Pendulum, declined due to his dissatisfaction with the 1986 film adaptation of his earlier novel The Name of the Rose. Additionally, Eco sought the role of screenwriter but Kubrick was unwilling to cooperate. Following Kubrick's death, Eco stated that he regretted his initial decision.[47]

Prior to the commencement of work for 2001, Terry Southern suggested the production of a high-budget pornographic film called Blue Movie to Kubrick; Southern proposed the film as an attempt to reinvent the genre. Kubrick decided against Southern's suggestion in the belief that he did not have the appropriate temperament for pornographic cinema; also, Kubrick did not think that he could sufficiently reinvent the genre to truly elevate it. At the same time, Southern had begun writing a novel, also entitled Blue Movie (published in 1970), in which a highly regarded art film director named "Boris Adrian" attempts to create such a film—the book is dedicated to Kubrick.[48]

Following J. R. R. Tolkien's sale of the film rights for The Lord of the Rings to United Artists in 1969, the rock band The Beatles considered a corresponding film project and approached Kubrick as a potential director; however, Kubrick turned down the offer, explaining to John Lennon that he thought the novel could not be adapted into a film due to its immensity.[49][50] The director of the second film adaptation, Peter Jackson, further explained that a major hindrance to the project's progression was Tolkien's opposition to the involvement of the Beatles.[51]

Kubrick also considered adapting Patrick Süskind's novel Perfume, which he had enjoyed; however, the idea was never acted upon.[52] The novel was later adapted for the screen by Tom Tykwer, as Perfume: The Story of a Murderer.[53]

Kubrick, searching for a project after Full Metal Jacket, considered adapting Robert Marshall's novel All the King's Men, a dramatic account of a British intelligence service operation during World War II.[54][55]

In the late 1980s, due to the reading fatigue of his assistant Anthony Frewin, Kubrick would set up a company called Empyrean Films to do research for potential film projects. Using an advertisement in The Times Literary Supplement, Kubrick would hire a number of readers who would unknowingly be assisting him on future projects. Among the literature sent to readers were, A Better Mantrap and Tomorrow Lies in Ambush by Bob Shaw, The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon, The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin, Engine Summer by John Crowley, The Eternal Husband by Fyodor Dostoevsky, First Love, Last Rites by Ian McEwan, Love Among the Ruins by Evelyn Waugh, and Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson.[56][57]

While working with Ian Watson on the story for A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Kubrick asked Watson for a pre-print copy of his Warhammer 40,000 tie-in novel Inquisitor. Watson quotes Kubrick as saying, "Who knows, Ian? Maybe this is my next movie?"[58]

Following a 2010 announcement about the development of the Lunatic at Large project, plans for the prospective production of two other unrealized Kubrick projects were also announced.[30] As of August 2012, Downslope and God Fearing Man were in development by Philip Hobbs and producer Steve Lanning, in partnership with independent company Entertainment One (eOne). A press release described Downslope as an "epic Civil War drama", while God Fearing Man is the "true story of Canadian minister Herbert Emerson Wilson."[59]

In a March 2013, Anthony Frewin, Kubrick's assistant for many years, wrote in an article in The Atlantic: "He [Kubrick] was limitlessly interested in anything to do with Nazis and desperately wanted to make a film on the subject." The article included information on another Kubrick World War II film that was never realized, based on the life story of Dietrich Schulz-Koehn, a Nazi officer who used the pen name "Dr. Jazz" to write reviews of German music scenes during the Nazi era. Kubrick had been given a copy of the Mike Zwerin book Swing Under the Nazis (the front cover of which featured a photograph of Schulz-Koehn) after he had finished production on Full Metal Jacket. However, a screenplay was never completed and Kubrick's film adaptation plan was never initiated (the unfinished Aryan Papers was a factor in the abandonment of the project).[60]

In between Eyes Wide Shut and A.I., Kubrick was interested in making a film, for children and young adults, based on H. Rider Haggard's viking epic novel, Eric Brighteyes.[61]

In 2016, long-time assistant of Kubrick's, Emilio D'Alessandro addressed that prior to his death, Kubrick was considering making a movie of Pinocchio. D'Alessandro said that Kubrick sent him to buy Italian books about Pinocchio. "He wanted to make it in his own because so many Pinocchios have been made. He wanted to do something really big… He said; 'It would [be] very nice if I could make children laugh and feel happy making this Pinocchio.'" (Kubrick eventually used the project based on Brian Aldiss short story as his "Pinocchio film.") D'Alessandro also stated that Kubrick's lifelong fascination in World War II led to an interest in The Battle of Monte Cassino. D'Alessandro, who is from Cassino, said, "Stanley said that would be an interesting film to make. He asked me to get hold of things ... like newspaper cuttings and find out the distance from the airport, train stations. He had a friend who actually bombarded Monte Cassino during the war ... It is horrible to remember those days. Everything was completely destroyed.”[62][63]

Notes edit

  1. ^ This is disputed by Carlo Fiore, who has claimed that Brando had not heard of Kubrick initially and that it was he who arranged a dinner meeting between Brando and Kubrick.[36]
  2. ^ According to biographer John Baxter, Kubrick was furious with Brando's casting of France Nuyen, and when Kubrick had confessed to still "not knowing what the picture was about", Brando snapped "I'll tell you what it's about. It's about $300,000 that I've already paid Karl Malden".[39]

Footnotes edit

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The following is a list of unproduced Stanley Kubrick projects in roughly chronological order During his long career American film director Stanley Kubrick had worked on a number of projects which never progressed beyond the pre production stage under his direction Some of these projects fell into development hell or are officially cancelled Kubrick filming Barry Lyndon in 1975 Contents 1 The Burning Secret and Natural Child 2 Napoleon 3 Aryan Papers 4 Shadow on the Sun 5 Lunatic at Large 6 Unreleased screenplays 7 Other projects 8 Notes 9 Footnotes 10 ReferencesThe Burning Secret and Natural Child editIn 1956 after the Metro Goldwyn Mayer M G M studio turned down a request from Kubrick and his producer partner James B Harris to film Paths of Glory MGM then invited Kubrick to review the studio s other properties Harris and Kubrick discovered Stefan Zweig s novel The Burning Secret in which a young baron attempts to seduce a young Jewish woman by first befriending her twelve year old son who eventually realizes the actual motives of the baron Kubrick was enthusiastic about the novel and hired novelist Calder Willingham to write a screenplay however Hays Code restrictions hindered the realization of the project 1 The script once thought to be lost was found in 2018 and is nearly completed to be developed by film makers 2 Kubrick had previously expressed interest in adapting a Willingham novel Natural Child but was also prevented by the Production Code on that occasion 3 Napoleon edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Napoleon Stanley Kubrick s unrealized film After the success of 2001 Kubrick planned a large scale biographical film about Napoleon Bonaparte 4 He tried to see every film that was ever made on the subject including Abel Gance s Napoleon and the Soviet film series War and Peace neither of which he liked 5 He also conducted research read books about the French emperor and wrote a preliminary screenplay which has since become available on the internet and has been published as part of a comprehensive collection of his research and preproduction work 6 With the help of assistants he meticulously created a card catalog of the places and deeds of Napoleon s inner circle during its operative years Kubrick scouted locations planning to film large portions of the film on location in France in addition to the use of United Kingdom studios The director was also going to film the battle scenes in Romania and had enlisted the support of the Romanian People s Army senior army officers had committed 40 000 soldiers and 10 000 cavalrymen to Kubrick s film for the paper costume battle scenes In a conversation with the British Film Institute Kubrick s brother in law Jan Harlan stated the film was set to enter production with David Hemmings as the title figure Napoleon later that role went to Jack Nicholson and Audrey Hepburn as Kubrick s preference for the character Josephine In notes that Kubrick wrote to his financial backers preserved in the book The Kubrick Archives Kubrick expresses uncertainty in regard to the progress of the Napoleon film and the final product however he also states that he expected to create the best movie ever made 7 Napoleon was eventually canceled due to the prohibitive cost of location filming the Western release of Sergei Bondarchuk s epic film version of Leo Tolstoy s novel War and Peace 1968 and the commercial failure of Bondarchuk s Napoleon themed film Waterloo 1970 A significant portion of Kubrick s historical research would influence Barry Lyndon 1975 the storyline of which ends in 1789 approximately fifteen years prior to the commencement of the Napoleonic Wars In March 2013 Steven Spielberg announced his intention to create in conjunction with Kubrick s family a television miniseries based on Kubrick s screenplay 8 In May 2016 HBO announced that it would produce a miniseries based on Kubrick s screenplay with Cary Joji Fukunaga as director 9 In August 2018 French opera singer and actor David Serero adapted the screenplay for the stage in New York in which he stars as Napoleon 10 11 12 The play opened on August 23 10 In February 2023 Spielberg reaffirmed that the miniseries at HBO was still in development and was being in worked into a large production of a seven part limited series 13 Aryan Papers editIn 1976 Kubrick sought out a film idea that concerned the Holocaust and tried to persuade Isaac Bashevis Singer to contribute an original screenplay Kubrick requested a dramatic structure that compressed the complex and vast information into the story of an individual who represented the essence of this man made hell However Singer declined explaining to Kubrick I don t know the first thing about the Holocaust 14 15 In the early 1990s Kubrick nearly entered the production stage of a film adaptation of Louis Begley s Wartime Lies the story of a boy and his aunt as they are in hiding from the Nazi regime during the Holocaust the first draft screenplay entitled Aryan Papers was penned by Kubrick himself Full Metal Jacket co screenwriter Michael Herr reports that Kubrick had considered casting Julia Roberts or Uma Thurman as the aunt eventually Johanna ter Steege was cast as the aunt and Joseph Mazzello as the young boy Kubrick traveled to the Czech city of Brno as it was envisaged as a possible filming location for the scenes of Warsaw during wartime and cinematographer Elemer Ragalyi was selected by Kubrick to be the director of photography 16 Kubrick s work on Aryan Papers eventually ceased in 1995 as the director was influenced by the 1993 release of Spielberg s Holocaust themed film Schindler s List According to Kubrick s wife Christiane an additional factor in Kubrick s decision was the increasingly depressing nature of the subject as experienced by the director Kubrick eventually concluded that an accurate Holocaust film was beyond the capacity of cinema and returned his attention to the A I Artificial Intelligence film project 17 In 2005 William Monahan was hired to adapt Wartime Lies for Warner Independent Pictures in co operation with John Wells Productions 18 In 2009 Kubrick s brother in law Jan Harlan announced his desire to produce the film and hire Ang Lee or Roman Polanski to direct 19 20 21 22 In 2020 it was reported that Luca Guadagnino hoped to direct the film 23 and that he had examined Kubrick s papers on the project held at the Stanley Kubrick Archive at University of the Arts London 24 Shadow on the Sun editIn the early 1960s Kubrick a keen listener of BBC Radio heard the radio serial drama Shadow on the Sun written by Gavin Blakeney Shadow on the Sun is a work of science fiction in which a virus is introduced to Earth through a meteorite landing 25 26 At a time when Kubrick was looking for a new project the director became reacquainted with Shadow on the Sun Kubrick purchased screen rights from Blakeney in 1988 for 1 500 27 Thereon Kubrick read and annotated a script before moving onto A I Artificial Intelligence 26 The tone of the unrealized project as described by Anthony Frewin in The Kubrick Archives is a cross between The War of the Worlds and Mars Attacks 28 Lunatic at Large editOn November 1 2006 Kubrick s son in law Philip Hobbs announced that he would be shepherding a film treatment of Lunatic at Large Kubrick had commissioned the project for treatment from noir pulp novelist Jim Thompson in the 1950s but it had been lost until Hobbs uncovered a manuscript following Kubrick s death 29 As of August 2011 this project is in development for future release with the involvement of actors Scarlett Johansson and Sam Rockwell and U K screenwriter Stephen R Clarke 30 Unreleased screenplays editA number of screenplays that were written by Kubrick who was either hired on a commission basis or was writing for his own projects remain unreleased One such screenplay is The German Lieutenant co written with Richard Adams in which a group of German soldiers embark upon a mission during the final days of World War II 31 During the time period when The German Lieutenant was planned as Kubrick s next production the director explained his interest in making another war film one of the attractions of a war or crime story is that it provides an almost unique opportunity to contrast an individual of our contemporary society with a solid framework of accepted value which the audience becomes fully aware of and which can be used as a counterpoint to a human individual emotional situation Further war acts as a kind of hothouse for forced quick breeding of attitudes and feelings Attitudes crystallize and come out into the open 32 Other examples of unreleased Kubrick screenplays are I Stole 16 Million Dollars a fictionalized account of early 20th century Baptist minister turned safecracker Herbert Emmerson Wilson the film was to be produced by Kirk Douglas company Bryna Productions despite Douglas belief that the script was poorly written and Cary Grant was approached for the lead role 33 and a first draft of a script about the Mosby Rangers a Confederate guerrilla force that was active during the American Civil War 34 Other projects editMarlon Brando contacted Kubrick asking him to direct a film adaptation of Charles Neider s Western novel The Authentic Death of Hendry Jones featuring Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid 35 a Brando was impressed saying that Stanley is unusually perceptive and delicately attuned to people He has an adroit intellect and is a creative thinker not a repeater not a fact gatherer He digests what he learns and brings to a new project an original point of view and a reserved passion 37 The two worked on a script for six months begun by a then unknown Sam Peckinpah Many disputes broke out over the project and in the end Kubrick distanced himself from what would become One Eyed Jacks 1961 38 b Kubrick was then reported to have been fired and accepted a parting fee of 100 000 40 though in a 1960 interview he claimed that he quit because It had just become obvious to me that Brando wanted to direct the movie 41 Kubrick s biographer LoBrutto states that for contractual reasons Kubrick was not able to cite the real reason but issued a statement saying that he had resigned with deep regret because of my respect and admiration for one of the world s foremost artists 42 Kubrick was offered to direct both The Exorcist 1973 and Exorcist II The Heretic 1977 but declined despite once saying in 1966 to a friend that he had long desired to make the world s scariest movie involving a series of episodes that would play upon the nightmare fears of the audience 43 Kubrick was fascinated by the career of Nazi filmmaker Veit Harlan his wife s uncle and contemplated creating a film of the social circle that surrounded Joseph Goebbels Although Kubrick worked on this project for several years the director was unable to progress beyond a rough story outline 44 In 1972 Andrew Birkin who had held a variety of roles in the production of 2001 offered Kubrick his screenplay based on Inside the Third Reich the memoir of Nazi architect and Minister of Armaments Albert Speer According to Birkin Kubrick was impressed by the script but turned it down on the grounds that it shouldn t be filmed by a Jewish director 45 However the 2020 documentary Speer Goes to Hollywood suggests Kubrick s involvement ended due to his insistence that the film acknowledge Speer s awareness of the Nazi extermination camps of which Speer claimed ignorance 46 Umberto Eco in response to an offer from Kubrick regarding a film adaptation of Eco s 1988 novel Foucault s Pendulum declined due to his dissatisfaction with the 1986 film adaptation of his earlier novel The Name of the Rose Additionally Eco sought the role of screenwriter but Kubrick was unwilling to cooperate Following Kubrick s death Eco stated that he regretted his initial decision 47 Prior to the commencement of work for 2001 Terry Southern suggested the production of a high budget pornographic film called Blue Movie to Kubrick Southern proposed the film as an attempt to reinvent the genre Kubrick decided against Southern s suggestion in the belief that he did not have the appropriate temperament for pornographic cinema also Kubrick did not think that he could sufficiently reinvent the genre to truly elevate it At the same time Southern had begun writing a novel also entitled Blue Movie published in 1970 in which a highly regarded art film director named Boris Adrian attempts to create such a film the book is dedicated to Kubrick 48 Following J R R Tolkien s sale of the film rights for The Lord of the Rings to United Artists in 1969 the rock band The Beatles considered a corresponding film project and approached Kubrick as a potential director however Kubrick turned down the offer explaining to John Lennon that he thought the novel could not be adapted into a film due to its immensity 49 50 The director of the second film adaptation Peter Jackson further explained that a major hindrance to the project s progression was Tolkien s opposition to the involvement of the Beatles 51 Kubrick also considered adapting Patrick Suskind s novel Perfume which he had enjoyed however the idea was never acted upon 52 The novel was later adapted for the screen by Tom Tykwer as Perfume The Story of a Murderer 53 Kubrick searching for a project after Full Metal Jacket considered adapting Robert Marshall s novel All the King s Men a dramatic account of a British intelligence service operation during World War II 54 55 In the late 1980s due to the reading fatigue of his assistant Anthony Frewin Kubrick would set up a company called Empyrean Films to do research for potential film projects Using an advertisement in The Times Literary Supplement Kubrick would hire a number of readers who would unknowingly be assisting him on future projects Among the literature sent to readers were A Better Mantrap and Tomorrow Lies in Ambush by Bob Shaw The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon The Dispossessed by Ursula K Le Guin Engine Summer by John Crowley The Eternal Husband by Fyodor Dostoevsky First Love Last Rites by Ian McEwan Love Among the Ruins by Evelyn Waugh and Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson 56 57 While working with Ian Watson on the story for A I Artificial Intelligence Kubrick asked Watson for a pre print copy of his Warhammer 40 000 tie in novel Inquisitor Watson quotes Kubrick as saying Who knows Ian Maybe this is my next movie 58 Following a 2010 announcement about the development of the Lunatic at Large project plans for the prospective production of two other unrealized Kubrick projects were also announced 30 As of August 2012 Downslope and God Fearing Man were in development by Philip Hobbs and producer Steve Lanning in partnership with independent company Entertainment One eOne A press release described Downslope as an epic Civil War drama while God Fearing Man is the true story of Canadian minister Herbert Emerson Wilson 59 In a March 2013 Anthony Frewin Kubrick s assistant for many years wrote in an article in The Atlantic He Kubrick was limitlessly interested in anything to do with Nazis and desperately wanted to make a film on the subject The article included information on another Kubrick World War II film that was never realized based on the life story of Dietrich Schulz Koehn a Nazi officer who used the pen name Dr Jazz to write reviews of German music scenes during the Nazi era Kubrick had been given a copy of the Mike Zwerin book Swing Under the Nazis the front cover of which featured a photograph of Schulz Koehn after he had finished production on Full Metal Jacket However a screenplay was never completed and Kubrick s film adaptation plan was never initiated the unfinished Aryan Papers was a factor in the abandonment of the project 60 In between Eyes Wide Shut and A I Kubrick was interested in making a film for children and young adults based on H Rider Haggard s viking epic novel Eric Brighteyes 61 In 2016 long time assistant of Kubrick s Emilio D Alessandro addressed that prior to his death Kubrick was considering making a movie of Pinocchio D Alessandro said that Kubrick sent him to buy Italian books about Pinocchio He wanted to make it in his own because so many Pinocchios have been made He wanted to do something really big He said It would be very nice if I could make children laugh and feel happy making this Pinocchio Kubrick eventually used the project based on Brian Aldiss short story as his Pinocchio film D Alessandro also stated that Kubrick s lifelong fascination in World War II led to an interest in The Battle of Monte Cassino D Alessandro who is from Cassino said Stanley said that would be an interesting film to make He asked me to get hold of things like newspaper cuttings and find out the distance from the airport train stations He had a friend who actually bombarded Monte Cassino during the war It is horrible to remember those days Everything was completely destroyed 62 63 Notes edit This is disputed by Carlo Fiore who has claimed that Brando had not heard of Kubrick initially and that it was he who arranged a dinner meeting between Brando and Kubrick 36 According to biographer John Baxter Kubrick was furious with Brando s casting of France Nuyen and when Kubrick had confessed to still not knowing what the picture was about Brando snapped I ll tell you what it s about It s about 300 000 that I ve already paid Karl Malden 39 Footnotes edit Cocks 2004 p 151 Alberge Dalya July 15 2018 Lost Stanley Kubrick screenplay Burning Secret is found 60 years on theguardian Retrieved July 15 2018 Cocks 2004 p 149 Darryl Mason 5 October 2000 The greatest movie Stanley Kubrick never made Salon Salon Media Group Inc Retrieved 26 March 2013 Gelmis Joseph 1970 The Film Director as Superstar Garden City New York Doubleday p 298 Rare Archive Materials from Stanley Kubrick s Napoleon lwlies com Retrieved 8 January 2021 Castle 2009 Spielberg to develop Kubrick s Napoleon for TV BBC News Retrieved 2013 03 03 Romano Nick 17 May 2016 Is Stanley Kubrick s Legendary Napoleon Headed to HBO with Cary Fukunaga Directing Deadline com Retrieved 16 June 2016 a b BWW News Desk NAPOLEON By Stanley Kubrick To Be Presented For The First Time On Stage David Serero to star as Napoleon s title role in 14 July 2021 Le Napoleon de Stanley Kubrick arrive enfin au theatre 13 August 2018 White Peter 21 February 2023 Steven Spielberg Mounting A Big Production For Stanley Kubrick s Napoleon Project Is Set As Seven Part Limited Series For HBO Deadline com Retrieved 13 Mar 2023 Cocks et al 2006 p 196 Cocks 2004 Gyarfas Dora 25 April 2012 Scarlett Johansson feltunoen butuska kislany volt origo filmklub in Hungarian Minden jog fenntartva Retrieved 26 March 2013 Cocks Geoffrey 2 March 2006 Review of The wolf at the door Stanley Kubrick history amp the Holocaust review Screening the past Archived from the original on January 17 2007 Retrieved 20 November 2014 a href Template Cite web html 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April 1999 The Odyssey Begins Entertainment Weekly New York City NY Time Inc LoBrutto 1999 p 164 Baxter 1997 p 302 Joan Dupont 15 September 2001 Kubrick Speaks Through Family s Documentary The New York Times Retrieved 26 March 2013 Ulivieri Filippo 4 December 2017 Waiting for a miracle a survey of Stanley Kubrick s unrealized projects Cinergie Il Cinema e le Altre Arti 12 doi 10 6092 issn 2280 9481 7349 Archived from the original on 21 June 2019 Retrieved 5 November 2021 Linden Sheri 4 November 2021 Speer Goes to Hollywood Film Review The Hollywood Reporter Archived from the original on 5 November 2021 Retrieved 5 November 2021 Ben Naparstek 15 December 2007 The Armani of literature The Age Retrieved 26 March 2013 Baxter 1997 pp 194 195 Drout 2006 p 15 See also interview in Show magazine vol 1 Number 1 1970 Beatles plan for Rings film CNN 2004 01 20 Baxter 1997 pp 332 360 Perfume The Story of a Murderer BBC Two BBC 2013 Retrieved 26 March 2013 Patrick Webster 2010 Love and Death in Kubrick A Critical Study of the Films from Lolita Through Eyes Wide Shut McFarland pp 245 ISBN 978 0 7864 6191 2 Retrieved 26 March 2013 Robert Marshall 7 November 2012 All the King s Men Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN 978 1 4482 1056 5 Retrieved 26 March 2013 Fenwick James 2021 Stanley Kubrick Produces Rutgers University Press pp 180 181 ISBN 978 1 9788 1487 5 The Hollywood Masters George Miller on Stanley Kubrick retrieved 2023 01 12 Plumbing Stanley Kubrick 2000 Retrieved 26 September 2014 Matt Goldberg 29 August 2012 eOne to Develop TV Projects DOWNSLOPE and GOD FEARING MAN Based on Screenplays by Stanley Kubrick Collider com IndieClick Film Network Retrieved 26 March 2013 James Hughes 25 March 2013 Stanley Kubrick s Unmade Film About Jazz in the Third Reich The Atlantic The Atlantic Monthly Group Retrieved 26 March 2013 SandpailMedia 25 April 2013 The Stanley Kubrick Archive Oral History Project Finding and Developing the Story via YouTube Murthi Vikram Stanley Kubrick Was Preparing To Remake Pinocchio Before His Death IndieWire Retrieved 28 March 2017 Alberge Dalya Stanley Kubrick was planning children s film before his death The Guardian Retrieved 28 March 2017 References editBaxter John 1999 Stanley Kubrick A Biography Seuil ISBN 978 0 7867 0485 9 Castle Alison 2009 Stanley Kubrick sNapoleon The Greatest Movie Never Made Taschen ISBN 978 3 8228 3065 9 Caldwell Thomas March 27 2006 Review of The wolf at the door Stanley Kubrick history amp the Holocaust Screening the Past La Trobe University 19 ISSN 1328 9756 Retrieved 2008 10 25 Ciment Michel 1982 Kubrick on A Clockwork Orange An interview with Michel Ciment The Kubrick Site Retrieved 2010 01 09 Cocks Geoffrey 2004 The Wolf at the Door Stanley Kubrick History and the Holocaust Peter Lang ISBN 0 8204 7115 1 Drout Michael D C ed 2006 J R R Tolkien Encyclopedia Scholarship and Critical Assessment Routledge ISBN 0 415 96942 5 Duncan Paul 2003 Stanley Kubrick The Complete Films Taschen GmbH ISBN 978 3 8365 2775 0 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