As NME, reports, The Thick Of It creator Armando Iannucci is set to pen a stage adaptation of Stanley Kubrick’s iconic film Dr. Strangelove.
The legendary film – officially titled Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb – hit screens in 1964.
Discussing his adaptation, which is the first time the film will be adapted for the stage and will come to London’s West End in late 2024, Iannucci told BBC News: “As a story, weirdly it hasn’t gone away.
“It seems the right time to remind people of the mad logic behind these dangerous games that superpowers play.”
He added: “We started talking about this adaptation several years ago, but now with the war in Ukraine and the whole nuclear question, it just hasn’t gone away. I think a lot of our art is less about the past and more about the future.”
Kubrick’s widow, Christiane Kubrick, said: “We have always been reluctant to let anyone adapt any of Stanley’s work, and we never have. It was so important to him that it wasn’t changed from how he finished it.
“But we could not resist authorizing this project: the time is right; the people doing it are fantastic; and Strangelove should be brought to a new and younger audience. I am sure Stanley would have approved it too.”
