Steven Spielberg

Stanley Kubrick has inspired others to try to finish what he started, but the difficulty level of pulling it off remains sky high.

The opaque nature of his films presents the greatest challenge in adaptation. [the director had a unique interpretation of the world](https://collider.com/stanley-kubrick-characters-morally-compromised-a-clockwork-orange-the-shining/) and the construct of the film medium. As a devoted listener to BBC Radio, Kubrick heard an audio serial drama, Shadow on the Sun, and was immediately drawn to adapt it for the screen. This goes against the constant myth and legend-making of Kubrick as the hermetic artist who viewed the world with antipathy, as in the wake of the massive success of Schindler's List, he found [no financial viability for the project](http://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/archive-fever-stanley-kubrick-and-the-aryan-papers). The news of him adapting Kubrick's script into a miniseries never took off when Aryan Papers, an adaptation of Wartime Lies, a novel by Louis Begley, would have examined the genocide against the Jewish population in the Nazi regime from the perspective of a boy and his aunt while in hiding. The connection to the text is evident. It seems fitting that Kubrick, a mythical-like figure that was often closed off from the rest of the world, would be tied to many unfinished films. [creating a card catalog](http://www.lamag.com/culturefiles/the-final-cut-taking-stock-of-stanley-kubrick2/) of various factoids and intricacies during his reign. [Steven Spielberg](https://collider.com/tag/steven-spielberg/) announced that he is developing a [miniseries on Napoleon Bonaparte](https://collider.com/steven-spielberg-adapting-stanley-kubrick-napoleon/). The series, still in the works, is based on a script from none other than [Stanley Kubrick](https://collider.com/tag/stanley-kubrick/). Any filmmaker, including ones with the aptitude of Spielberg, will be criticized at perhaps an unfair scale, whether it is due to their cheapened attempt to mimic Kubrick's style and tone or inserting their voice rather than staying true to the original text.