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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.
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