Kubrick said he thought this would make the film more commercial. More work was done on the script, and the beginning of the shoot approached.Īccording Douglas’s autobiography, when he arrived in Munich, Kubrick presented him with the rewritten script which – to his horror – had a new, happy ending. It was decided to shoot the film in Munich. Kubrick and Harris had no option but to accept the deal. Douglas’s agent wanted a fee of almost one third of the entire budget and demanded that his client’s production company, Bryna Films, make the film. He took it to United Artists and persuaded them to back the project if he starred in it. Hollywood star Kirk Douglas read the script and fell in love with it. They’re death at the box office.’ Kubrick could find no other studio to show any interest in this strange project about a war that, in any case, did not rate significantly for most Americans. ‘We just did The Red Badge of Courage,’ said one MGM exec. Douglas fell in love with the film script after it had initially been rejected by MGM.īut MGM wanted nothing to do with the project.
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