WI: Stanley Kubrick lives

Director Stanley Kubrick died in 1999 at age 70 of natural causes. Now, that's not particularly old. So, what if he had lived, and survived until the present day? Furthermore, let's assume that, like Clint Eastwood, he's an active filmmaker well into his advanced age.

What sort of projects would a healthy, living Stanley Kubrick pursue after Eyes Wide Shut?
 
It would be interesting if it was AI - Artificial Intelligence. The original idea was that Speilberg directed it, while Kubrick produced the movie. It would be interesting the movie critics's reaction if we get the OTL movie with Kubrick producing :p (the parts that Spielberg added were at the middle of the movie - the distant finale was pure Kubrick!!! :eek::cool:)
 
Maybe he could finnally go through with his Napoleon epic. That was supposed to the (according to him) the most massive undertaking in the history of film.
 
Perhaps Kubrick would make Napoleon movie what he has planned long time. Or maybe Kubrick would make movie that kind of genre what he haven't made. Perhaps western. I don't know then had he even planning western movie. But it would be intresting see Kubrick's western.
 
It would be interesting if it was AI - Artificial Intelligence. The original idea was that Speilberg directed it, while Kubrick produced the movie. It would be interesting the movie critics's reaction if we get the OTL movie with Kubrick producing :p (the parts that Spielberg added were at the middle of the movie - the distant finale was pure Kubrick!!! :eek::cool:)

I agree that AI would no doubt be the first venture of a still living Kubrick - it's what comes after that is the question.
 
The Napoleon epic would likely have been his final movie, but what a sendoff it might have been...

And probably his only after Eyes Wide Shut. Kubrick made movies quiet rarely. His two last movies had made on 1987 and 1999. And The Shining what he made before Full Metal Jacket (1987) had made on 1980.
 
Was this thread inspired by Nostalgia Critic's recent review of "A.I."?

I suggest listening to Mr Critic's view of what that film is and the problem of what it is, and the Catch 22 of what it is, which is at the end of his review video. It's basically summarized down to Kubrick being interested in Spielberg's sentimental audience pleasers, which Kubrick couldn't do, just as Spielberg loved Kubrick's films but couldn't do his that way, and Kubrick crafted "A.I." like it was a Spielberg film. As he wasn't Spielberg, that made the script caught awkwardly between those two worlds even before Spielberg took over upon Kubrick's death. When Spielberg took over directing, he was in a no win situation. Either he'd be said to be not good enough to do a film like Kubrick, or he'd be said to be doing a film which had made a Kubrick film into a Spielberg film, whether he strayed from or stayed true to the material because the material was Kubrick trying to be Spielberg.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mHs02VbKIE
 
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