Come on, Stanley Kubrick. Tell us what you really think.
Wednesday, September 17th, 2025
This peppery 1970 letter from director Stanley Kubrick to James T. Aubrey, then president of the MGM , comes to us courtesy Clarence Major.
P.S. Whoops! Snopes has the scoop on this one: “The facsimile was traced back to its source, a satire website called Gloss News. It appeared in an article published on 31 May 2014 and titled “Corman Creates Catastrophe, Kubrick Cringes.” The premise of the article was that MGM was so determined to make a sequel to 2001 over Stanley Kubrick’s objections that studio executives went to extraordinary lengths to make it happen. … ‘Are we alone in wishing this film had actually been made?‘”
