Apparently a lost treatment (commissioned by the late Stanley Kubrick from author and sometimes collaborator Jim Thomspon) is coming to the big screen. After the director's death in 1999, the manuscript entitled 'Lunatic at Large' was discovered by Kubrick's son-in-law Philip Hobbs.

The film has stars Sam Rockwell (Moon, Iron Man 2) and Scarlett Johansson (Iron Man 2). Hit the jump for more details...




The film is a period piece described as a dark and startling mystery to figure out who amonst a group is an escapee from a nearby mental hospital. Been there, done that? Oh well. Here's the details from a 2006 NY Times article...

"Set in New York in 1956, it tells the story of Johnnie Sheppard, an ex-carnival worker with serious anger-management issues, and Joyce, a nervous, attractive barfly he picks up in a Hopperesque tavern scene. There’s a newsboy who flashes a portentous headline, a car chase over a railroad crossing with a train bearing down, and a romantic interlude in a spooky, deserted mountain lodge. The great set piece is a nighttime carnival sequence in which Joyce, lost and afraid, wanders among the tents and encounters a sideshow’s worth of familiar carnie types: the Alligator Man, the Mule-Faced Woman, the Midget Monkey Girl, the Human Blockhead, with the inevitable noggin full of nails."