Lost Stanley Kubrick Screenplay Unearthed after 60 Years
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A lost screenplay by The Shining director Stanley Kubrick has been uncovered, 60 years after it was written. Found by a professor researching a book about Kubrick’s final project, the script is an adaptation of a novel by Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, which follows an insurance salesman’s attempts to befriend a 10-year-old boy, so he can seduce the child’s mother. Originally written in 1956, the screenplay was ditched after being deemed too controversial for studio bosses. “The son of a Kubrick collaborator, who wishes to remain anonymous at this time, has shown me a copy,” said the professor, Nathan Abrams of Bangor University. “It’s most likely that said collaborator was going to work on the film had it been green-lit.”
