Frank Darabont Is Working on Adapting an Unproduced Stanley Kubrick Film Project

There are several unproduced film projects that Stanely Kubrick was working on throughout his directing career that he never got around to making before he passed away. Well, director Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile) recently revealed that he’s taken a treatment for a movie that Kubrick wrote in the 1950s, and he’s developing it as a film.

Darabont recently shared the news with the Post Mortem podcast (via Dread Central), and he says it’s one of the best things that he’s ever done:

“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. 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.”

Darabont also revealed that Alien and Blade Runner director Ridley Scott was also attached to the project as a producer:

“It’s not just me, the schmuck recluse living up north. Ridley Scott was one of the producers on it! And it’s Kubrick’s idea that he developed with Shelby Foote, a noted Civil War historian.”

I would love to see this movie get made. It’s crazy to me that with Darabont, Kubrick, and Scott’s name attached to it, they could not get a single meeting in Hollywood! I guess no one is interested in financing a Civil War film. I hope that eventually, the project gains some momentum, especially if it’s one of the best things that Darabont has written.