Can I star in a film by Stanley Kubrick in 2010? You can, because the New York filmmaker, who died in 1999, left a pile of scripts, many of them unfinished, manuscripts windtunneleffect ideas just outlined. And one of those scripts, Lunatic at Large, will see the light with Scarlett Johansson and Sam Rockwell starring in a film planned later this year

It is not yet closed, the director's name, but the script, which has been written since 1960, when the filmmaker was raised roll. The script was the result of collaboration between Kubrick and writer Jim Thompson crime novel: Robbery together also made perfect and Paths of Glory. Why not be filmed? Because Kirk Douglas appeared with the project Spartacus and genius decided to indulge in a peplum. In the best spirit of the classic thriller, action by Lunatic at Large takes place in New York in the Fifties, with touches of madness, and some sequences in a circus. In The New York Times's son-Kubrick, Philip Hobbs, said that his father spoke several times of that script "because it seemed like a great idea."

t is the first script of Kubrick that has inspired a film director after the death of A Clockwork Orange and Full Metal Jacket. Steven Spielberg directed Artificial Intelligence in 2001 using the schedule had been made Kubrick and Brian Aldiss. Thompson Neither film has disappeared from the map: Michael Winterbottom opens in summer thriller The Killer Inside Me, based on a novel by Thompson, with Casey Affleck as the sheriff of a small town in Texas, Jessica Alba and Kate Hudson.