New Unproduced Kubrick Project (from Frank Darabont & Ridley Scott)

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The Shawshank Redemption and The Mist director Frank Darabont is Working with Producer Ridley Scott on Unproduced Stanley Kubrick Project

“I spent the last year writing a script. And I know when I’m hitting on all cylinders or not. I was hitting on all cylinders,” Darabont says on the latest episode of Post Mortem with Mick Garris.

“It’s a magnificent project based on a treatment that Stanley Kubrick wrote in the late ’50s—an incredible Civil War piece. It’s a very meaningful script and [when] I finished, I said, ‘This is the best thing I’ve ever done.’ And we shopped it around town and we didn’t get a single meeting.”

This problem isn’t unique to any single filmmaker, Darabont adds, but is endemic to the industry at large. Not long ago, he ran into Rob Reiner (whose Castle Rock Entertainment backed many of Darabont’s landmark Stephen King adaptations), and said, “‘Rob, do you know what the hell’s going on in this business?’ And he goes, ‘No, no. Not a clue.’ We’re all shrugging. It used to be that there was a place where you could go and somebody was willing to put their reputation, their job, on the line to get a movie made because they believed in it. That doesn’t seem to be the case anymore.”

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