Source: Dorkshelf.com If Stanley Kubrick were still alive, could anyone imagine him casting Scarlett Johansson in what can only be described as a grotesquely camp mystery centered around an escaped axe-murderer?
Well, it just happened--except for the part about Stanley Kubrick. He is neither alive, nor did he personally cast Johansson and her Boleyn Girls (I'm trying really hard to make that a thing), and let's be honest, would Kubrick even cast Johansson anyway? Before he featured Nicole Kidman in Eyes Wide Shut, the hottest actress he ever worked with was Sue Lyon who played Lolita (was it weird that I said that?).
According to cinematical.com, both Johansson and Sam Rockwell have signed on to star in an adaptation of a long-lost film treatment developed by Kubrick and pulp novelist Jim Thompson in the late 1950s. In 2006, the New York Times reported on the existence of a script adaptation of this titled Lunatic at Large, which was described as 1950s potboiler featuring a car chase and a macabre carnival set piece most likely filled with very spooky things.
Am I the only who thinks this sounds nothing remotely like a Stanley Kubrick film? And as far as Scarlett Johansson's luscious boobliness is concerned, maybe that's a good thing. Stanley Kubrick was a genius, but sexiness was one quality conspiculously absent from most of his films.
You forgot to mention one Kubrick hottie:
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