What IF Kubrick hadn't died???

I honestly don't think Stanley Kubrick would have made AI. I can not imagine him useing CGI in his movies. Kubrick was too much of a perfectionist to use CGI in my opinion, as CGI looks false. A film like this is far more suited to Spielberg.

I would have hoped Kubrick would have made another war film just to piss Spielberg off. One that had better combat scenes, and great characterisation which Saving Private Ryan lacked. I would bet Kubrick was horrified when he saw SPR as it glamourised war. Especialy as it was voted the best war film ever here in the UK.

Imagine what his thoughts would have been about Iraq? Maybe he would have made a war film about this. Be the first real film about what's going on in Iraq. It could have been a cool companion peace for Full Metal Jacket. Show how the USMC has changed since the 60's, and believe me it has changed.

I don't think he would have done Napolean either. It would cost too much now and again, I don't think He would use CGI. Other than that I don't know. Maybe a film about old age. What is it like to be old? That might have been interesting.

Kubrick probably would remake his first film fear and desire lol

Just thinking about that.

I personally doubt AI would ever have been made. He had already nominally turned over the project to Spielberg, and it was probably doomed to be completed after his death anyway.

One thing to keep in mind is that although he incorporated a lot of Napoleon into Barry Lyndon, he might have wanted another go at it after the CG explosion of '99. The bad taste in his mouth Barry Lyndon left might in fact have been abolished completely with the release of such movies as "Alexander" and "Troy".

He tracked computer graphics for a great deal of his life, and I imagine that Star Wars Episode I would have interested him, if not for its fine, cliche-free plot and brilliant acting, for at least the efforts of ILM in producing the massive droid vs. gungan army.

But let's look at things realistically, shall we?

Eyes Wide Shut would have left him very tired, as it did - too tired. He probably would have given interviews for a few months after the release, leaving him even more fatigued. I doubt we would have heard much from him in the next few years while he tried to get Tom Cruise's footprints off his couch, wait until the critics stopped saying "Nice...but no thanks" while making masked references to his growing senile, and otherwise recuperate. For such a consistently modern man, references to him as a fossil of another age probably would have annoyed him a great deal.

After the release of Lord of the Rings in 2001, he probably would have gotten a lot of faith back in CGI. After Two Towers a year later, he might have been hooked.

The rest depends on his mortality. If we give him 8 healthy years until today, he might have attempted a new adaptation, or returned to Napoleon, or even completely redone A.I. I do think he would have been interested in making a good movie with the same effects that now plague modern brainless blockbusters.

However,unless he got a head start with a clear idea of what he wanted to do, knowing from his close call in 1999 that he wasn't going to live forever, he might not have bothered, and chosen to live out the rest of his years with his family, while working on various projects he had no real hope of completing.

Perhaps, if we give him the same massive heart attack but fast medical attention, he would have returned to his earlier fascination with being frozen. As it is brain damage would have been so great that it was pointless.

Doesn't this thread belong on Stanley Kubrick's page, not Fear and Desire's?