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A script co-authored by Stanley Kubrick was found by a British academic who was researching the latest image of the legendary director, "Eyes Wide Shut". The screenplay, "Burning Secret," is an adaptation of a 1913 novel by The Austrian novelist and playwright Stefan Zweig
It was written by Kubrick and author and screenwriter Calder Willingham ("The Graduate ") in 1956. The story follows a mother and son on vacation and a mysterious man who befriends the boy. an attempt to seduce his mother.
It was known that Kubrick had worked on "Burning Secret" but not to what extent, or whether there was a complete scenario. Nathan Abrams, a film professor at Bangor University in Wales, told BBC radio Monday that the son of one of Kubrick's collaborators, who wants to keep anonymous , showed him the scenario of more than 100 pages. The Guardian reported the discovery Sunday.
"It's a complete scenario: early, middle, late," Abrams told BBC radio. "As to whether it was the last, we can not say it."
Abrams added that there was enough material to make a movie, but "if it would fit Stanley Kubrick's vision, it's something else … We must add in the mix that Stanley never looked at a screenplay as a plan to which he then added his audiovisual expertise. "
Kubrick and Willingham worked together again in 1957 on the anti-war film" Paths of Glory ", putting featured Kirk Douglas and based on the novel Humphrey Cobb.
"Burning Secret" was adapted for the big screen before, first in 1933 as an Austro-German film by Robert Siodmak. An English image followed in 1988.
The latter was directed by Kubrick's assistant Andrew Birkin's own screenplay of Birkin and starred Faye Dunaway and David Eberts. Variety described it as an "intriguing story of a mother's near-adulteress seen through the impressionable eyes of her 12-year-old son," and Eberts won a prize of Young Jury at the Venice Film Festival. Festival.
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