thanks for posting this good news. any opinions on chris
palmer and/or stephen r. clarke as the big
shoe-fillers?
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ejgorman99@aol.com wrote:
>
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/31/movies/31scri.html?ref=arts&
> pagewanted=print
>
> After Death, My Sweet: From an Idea by Kubrick,
a
> New Film May Be Born
> By CHARLES McGRATH
>
>
> Stanley Kubrick never threw anything away. On
the
> other hand, he didn't have
> much of a filing system, and when he moved
-
> permanently, it turned out -
> from Hollywood to London in 1962, a great
many
> things went astray. Among them was
> the sole copy of a film treatment called
"Lunatic
> at Large,‿ which Mr.
> Kubrick had commissioned in the late '50s from
the
> noir pulp novelist Jim Thompson,
> with whom he had worked on "The Killing,‿ a
1956
> bank-heist story that
> became his first successful feature, and then
on
> 1957's "Paths of Glory.‿
>
> The manuscript remained lost until after
Mr.
> Kubrick's death, in 1999, when
> his son-in-law, Philip Hobbs, working with
an
> archivist, turned it up, along
> with a couple of other scripts, and set about
trying
> to make it into a movie.
>
> There were a couple of false starts. Mr.
Hobbs
> originally approached the
> French company Pathé - partly because the
French
> hold Jim Thompson in the same
> esteem as Edgar Allan Poe and Mickey Rourke -
and
> after that arrangement fell
> through, he formed a partnership with Edward
R.
> Pressman, a New York-based
> producer, and the London producers Finch &
Partners.
> Mr. Pressman, who is expected
> to announce the completion of the deal today,
said
> the film would be directed
> by Chris Palmer, from a finished script by
Stephen
> R. Clarke.
>
> "When Stanley died, he left behind lots
of
> paperwork,‿ Mr. Hobbs said in a
> telephone interview. "We ended up going
through
> trunks of it, and one day we
> came across 'Lunatic at Large.' I knew what
it
> was right away, because I
> remember Stanley talking about 'Lunatic.' He
was
> always saying he wished he knew
> where it was, because it was such a great
idea.
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have
been
> removed]
>
>
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