Stanley Kubrick, would-be director of Napoleon and actual director of The Shining and Full Metal Jacket, added Doctor…
Sorry, Guillermo del Toro, there’s another auteur adding to his pile of famously unrealized epics: Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick, would-be director ofreports that, according to a 1959 letter, the legendary filmmaker was trying to snag the rights to Boris Pasternak’s novel. That’s half a decade before director David Lean finally brought it to the screen.
Dug up by British film historian James Fenwick – who found the documents hiding in the University of the Arts London’s Kubrick archive and the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research’s Kirk Douglas papers – this new information gives Kubrick nerds the world over yet another unmade film to speculate over when they’re tired of debating howTo aid in that dorm room debate is Kubrick himself, who encourages hypotheses of how he’d adapt the story in his own self-effacing writings.
While it’s unclear if Douglas would’ve really starred in the project as well as producing it, these archival texts certainly conjure up a fascinating “what if?” scenario whereJuly 15, 2024 | 2:36pm
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