Stanley Kubrick's screenplay that he never got to shoot will hit theaters

Stanley Kubrick was the reference filmmaker of the 20th century and his filmography left a long list of films that forever changed the seventh art. His work as a director has been one of the most studied in history, marked by eccentricity, the search for perfection to limits never thought of and technical innovation. However, his death was not the end of his work and his latest film will finally hit theaters. ‘Perfect Heist’ was Stanley Kubrick’s first film to gain the impact the director deserved; serving as a prelude to what a year later would arrive with ‘Senderos de gloria’: one of the best valued films of war cinema. The filmmaker’s career was built around authentic industry revolutions that, such as ‘Lolita’, ‘A Clockwork Orange’, ‘2001: an odyssey in space’ or, among others, ‘Eyes Wide Shut’, renewed the own cinematographic language. His death in 1999 overwhelmed the world of celluloid, assuming a loss impossible to compensate; However, we will still have one last bit of his mind with ‘Lunatic at large’, one of the three Kubrick scripts that were never shot. ‘Lunatic at large’, the never-filmed script by Stanley Kubrick When Stanley Kubrick passed away, he had in mind to shoot ‘AI Artificial Intelligence’, a science fiction film about human nature that prioritized existential questions over the fantasy inherent to the genre. Steven Spielberg took control of the play and signed a more than remarkable film that left us with one of the most dramatic endings in cinema. However, the director’s projects were not limited to the robot film, but had even signed up to three scripts before dying.One of them was ‘Lunatic at large’ and, as Variety has collected, production is about to begin. The details of the plot remain a complete mystery; however, producers Bruce Hendricks and Galen Walker -who have just acquired the rights to exploit the work- have already confirmed that it is a “noir film thriller typical of the works of Stanley Kubrick and his regular collaborator, Jim Thompson “. Therefore, unlike ‘AI Artificial Intelligence’, this film could capture all the spirit that marked the filmmaker’s filmography, adapting his narrative to the new century. Bruce Hendricks, as Variety corroborates, has worked for more than 25 years in Walt Disney Studios, being behind great films like ‘The sixth sense’, ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ or ‘Armageddon’. On this occasion, Hendricks will work under the label of his own production company, Esmerald Bay Entertainment, together with Walker’s production company, FineLineMedia, thus enjoying all the freedom that large Hollywood studios sometimes deny their directors. They have been eager to bring one of the last three Kubrick films that, to date, had remained in the drawers of Hollywood executives. “The opportunity to carry out a Stanley Kubrick project after so long is a dream come true,” said Galen Walker, clarifying that “we are looking forward to making a film that maintains his unique style and vision.” In this way, after having the pertinent permissions regarding rights, it seems that a posthumous work by the director will finally arrive that marked a turning point in cinematographic art.Other works by Kubrick that tried and failed When it comes to paying tribute to an eminence of these characteristics, it is most likely that everything ends up falling on deaf ears. The stakes are too high, and Kubrick’s mind is not exactly easy to fathom; Due to this, we have witnessed several failures when trying to execute his last works, the most notable of all, which has not yet been totally ruled out, is the film about Napoleon. Steven Spielberg himself was one of the directors who was going to be in charge of filming the play, but it never came to fruition. Now, with the accessibility of streaming platforms, the film about the emperor could have a new opportunity, splitting into a miniseries for HBO by Cary Fukunaga: a news that arrived in 2016 and of which during the last five years it has not There have been some new developments, but it seems that the plans for ‘Lunatic at large’ are solid and production is scheduled to begin in the autumn of this year. We are still light years away from knowing when the premiere will hit the big theaters, pending confirmation of the director chosen by the producers or even the film’s synopsis. However, if everything remains firm, we would possibly be facing one of the last goodbyes of an unforgettable director, who made a difference during his years in business.