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How I Became Stanley Kubrick For One Week — Jim Fredrick
Film Courage: We understand you have a very interesting Stanley Kubrick story?
Jim Fredrick, Author/Editor/Professor At Chapman University Dodge College: Yes. I was driving along the 405 freeway going 5 miles an hour on my way home from Burbank to Manhattan Beach, a very arduous drive.
I got a phone call on my car phone and it was Terry Semel, who was the co-head of Warner Brothers Studios. I had only been there a year. I thought Why is the head of the studio calling a schmuck like me? I’m just a poster/ trailer maker. He said I’ve got some bad news. Stanley Kubrick just passed away and as you know Stanley made all of his campaign materials himself.
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He’d hire artists to work whether it was the poster for The Shining or the teaser trailer for 2001, whatever. He would create the materials and send them off to his home studio Warner Brothers and say Here’s the poster for Full Metal Jacket. Make 40,000 of these.