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Stanley Kubrick, who directed such iconic films as Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and A Clockwork Orange, was also a notorious control freak whom Randy Kennedy of the New York Times described as titanically exacting and was highly protective of his work. When Kubrick died in 1999, he left behind a vast trove of production materials: notes, sketches, letters and other detritus, some of which has since found its way online. In 2014, an image said to be a scan of an Aug. 27, 1970, typewritten letter from Kubrick to MGM president James T. Aubrey surfaced on the Internet and instantly went viral, for reasons that will be obvious on a single reading: As popular as the letter became on social media, readers familiar with Kubrick's life and oeuvre were skeptical of its authenticity. For one thing, Kubrick wasn't known to have taken such a vehement stand against any 2001 follow-up. In fact, when the actual sequel, 2010, went into production in the early 1980s, Kubrick gave the project and its director, Peter Hyams, his blessing. For another thing, the aggression and profanity that make the missive so funny are lacking in other specimens of his correspondence. The doubters were proved correct when the facsimile was traced back to its source, a satire website called Gloss News. It appeared in an article published on 31 May 2014 and titled Corman Creates Catastrophe, Kubrick Cringes. The premise of the article was that MGM was so determined to make a sequel to 2001 over Stanley Kubrick's objections that studio executives went to extraordinary lengths to make it happen: Are we alone in wishing this film had actually been made?
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