Despite succumbing to a heart attack over a decade ago, Stanley Kubrick’s celebrated oeuvre (A Clockwork Orange, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Dr. Strangelove, Full Metal Jacket, The Shining) continues to thrill moviegoers with a taste for the grand, the perverse and the strange. Now, according to Holllywood trade publication Production Weekly, the filmmaker’s spirit will live on again as a “lost” Kubrick project dubbed “Lunatic At Large” is set for a big screen adaptation.
The project, which exists as a single film treatment penned by pulp author Jim Thompson in the late 50’s, was originally chanced upon by Kubrick’s son-in-law Philip Hobbs in 1999. The 80 page treatment was found in a trunk among Kubrick’s personal effects and centers on “Johnnie Sheppard, an ex-carnival worker with serious anger-management issues, and Joyce, a nervous, attractive barfly he picks up in a Hopperesque tavern scene.”
Thus far no Directors have been attached to the project but Production Weekly reports that Sam Rockwell and Scarlett Johansson are in talks to headline as Jim and Joyce. This is obviously great news because any film with Sam Rockwell in it is great but the prospect of Sam Rockwell portraying an angry ex-carnie in a lost Kubrick project is kind of insane.
Via Cinematical
