After the legendary film-maker Stanley Kubrick died in 1999, the vast piles of unfinished manuscripts, screenplays and ideas he left behind generated almost as much excitement among fans as his movies did during his life. Now a treatment the director believed had been lost looks set to make it to the big screen, with Scarlett Johansson and Sam Rockwell to star. The film, Lunatic at Large, is reportedly based on a story written by Kubrick and the pulp crime fiction writer Jim Thompson, with whom he also collaborated on The Killing and Paths of Glory. Kubrick had scheduled to begin shooting the film in the early 1960s but shelved the project after an approach from Kirk Douglas to direct the Roman epic Spartacus, in which Douglas starred. |
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