Legendary British director Stanley Kubrick is working on a new film, his first since 1987's Full Metal Jacket. As might be expected from the famously reclusive Kubrick, very few details are available at this stage, although it is understood that the project, entitled Eyes Wide Shut is to star Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise and will be scripted by Frederic Raphael, who won an Oscar for his screenplay for Darling in 1965.
The movie, currently in pre-production, is set to start shooting in autumn and is scheduled for delivery in late 1997. Location scouting in north London has already begun.
The director is also thought to have another project planned, a futuristic thriller set in New York after the polar ice caps have melted, entitled Artificial Intelligence.
Kubrick, who hasn't left England since filming Lolita in the US 30 years ago, is rumoured to be co-ordinating with George Lucas by satellite on certain sequences, the most spectacular of which is an "explosion deep at the base of a high rise, creating 100-foot waves that ricochet through the streets of Manhattan..." Both projects are being developed for Warner Bros.
John Adair
