Stanley Kubrick's 1956 screenplay "The Downslope" is all set to become a trilogy with "World War Z" director Marc Forster attached to direct and produced the first movie.
Forster will produce the trilogy along with Lauren Selig, Barry Levine and Renee Wolfe. Selig initiated the project with producers/rights holders Phil Hobbs and Steve Lanning, who are also serving as producers. The Kubrick family is supporting the project.
The succeeding stories will expand upon Kubrick's original Civil War story, reported Variety.
Kubrick wrote the script following the release of his anti-war film "Fear and Desire" and before directing World War I drama "Paths of Glory".
"The Downslope" revolves around a series of Civil War battles in the Shenandoah Valley between Union General George Armstrong Custer and Confederate Colonel John Singleton Mosby, known as the Gray Ghost for his stealth and elusiveness.
His cavalrymen, known as Mosby's Rangers, continually outsmarted the much larger enemy forces in a sequence of raids, which enraged Custer and created a cycle of revenge between the two men.
He developed the project with Civil War historian Shelby Foote and spent years studying, developing and writing the story, as well as creating maps and notes as to how he planned to shoot the movie.
Kubrick, one of the most celebrated directors in American cinema, died in 1999. He was nominated for 13 Academy Awards for "Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb"; "2001: A Space Odyssey"; "A Clockwork Orange"; "Barry Lyndon" and "Full Metal Jacket".
His other famous projects include "Spartacus", "Lolita", "The Shining" and "Eyes Wide Shut".
Forster's credits include James Bond movie "Quantum of Solace", "Stranger Than Fiction" and the upcoming "All I See Is You", starring Blake Lively and Jason Clarke.
