A “ lose ” screenplay co - write by famous filmmakerStanley Kubrickhas been find out after 60 years , Vulturereports .
The screenplay is an adaptation of Stefan Zweig ’s novellaBurning Secret , which Vulture identify as a reverseLolita(plot sum-up for those who forgot high school English class : a humankind record a relationship with a woman because of his obsession with her 12 - year - quondam girl ) . InBurning Secret , a man befriend an teenaged male child in decree to make his female parent . Zweig ’s other works have inspired film like Wes Anderson’sThe Grand Budapest Hotel(which the theatre director claims he " stole " from Zweig ’s novelsBeware of PityandThe Post - Office Girl ) .
Kubrick ’s screenplay version is co - indite by novelist Calder Willingham and dated October 24 , 1956 . Although the screenplay bears a postage from MGM ’s screenwriting department , Nathan Abrams — the Bangor University professor who discover the playscript — thinks it ’s in all likelihood the studio found it too risqué for mass audiences .
“ The child move as an unwitting go - between for his mother and her would - be fan , make for a disturbing fib with gender and child misuse churning beneath its surface , ” Abrams toldThe Guardian . It ’s deserving noting , however , that Kubrick directed an adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov’sLolitain 1962 , which MGM pass on , and it was also met with a fair share of controversy .
Abrams said the screenplay forBurning Secretis complete enough that it could be created by filmmakers today . He mention that the discovery is particularly exciting because it confirms speculation Kubrick scholars have had for decades .
“ Kubrick aficionados knew he want to do it , [ but ] no one ever think it was completed , ” Abrams toldThe Guardian .
The Guardianreports that Abrams found the screenplay while researching his bookEyes Wide Shut : Stanley Kubrick and the Making of His last Film . The screenplay is owned by the mob of one of Kubrick ’s colleague .
[ h / tVulture ]
