Editing Eyes Wide Shut (section)

===Development===
''Eyes Wide Shut'' was developed after Stanley Kubrick read Arthur Schnitzler's ''Dream Story'' in 1968, when Kubrick was looking for a project to follow ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|2001: A Space Odyssey]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hobbs |first=Thomas |date=17 July 2024 |title=Eyes Wide Shut: The remarkable afterlife of a notorious 1990s misfire |url=https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20240716-eyes-wide-shut-the-remarkable-afterlife-of-a-notorious-1990s-flop |access-date=18 July 2024 |website=BBC}}</ref> Kubrick was interested in adapting the story, and with the help of journalist [[Jay Cocks]], bought the filming rights to the novel.<ref name="time">{{cite magazine|url=https://time.com/archive/6735812/cinema-all-eyes-on-them/|title=Cinema: All Eyes On Them|author-link=Richard Schickel |last=Schickel |first=Richard |date=July 5, 1999|magazine=Time|access-date=February 18, 2018|archive-date=November 7, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241107014246/https://time.com/archive/6735812/cinema-all-eyes-on-them/|url-status=live}}</ref> For the following decade, Kubrick considered making the ''Dream Story'' adaptation a sex comedy "with a wild and somber streak running through it", starring [[Steve Martin]] or [[Woody Allen]] in the main role.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/eyes-wide-shut-woody-allen-bill-murray-stanley-kubrick-tom-cruise-dream-story-a9664411.html |title=Stanley Kubrick wanted Woody Allen or Bill Murray for Eyes Wide Shut role instead of Tom Cruise, new book reveals |last=White |first=Adam |work=[[The Independent]] |date=August 11, 2020 |access-date=May 8, 2021 |archive-date=June 27, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210627132320/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/eyes-wide-shut-woody-allen-bill-murray-stanley-kubrick-tom-cruise-dream-story-a9664411.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="vf">{{cite magazine|first=Michael |last=Herr |author-link=Michael Herr |url=http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/classic/features/kubrick-199908 |magazine=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]] |date=August 1999 |title=Kubrick |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120629212013/http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/classic/features/kubrick-199908.print |archive-date=June 29, 2012 |url-status=live}}</ref> Kubrick also considered [[Tom Hanks]], [[Bill Murray]], [[Dustin Hoffman]], [[Warren Beatty]], [[Albert Brooks]], [[Alan Alda]] and [[Sam Shepard]] for the lead in the 1980s.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/eyes-wide-shut-woody-allen-bill-murray-stanley-kubrick-tom-cruise-dream-story-a9664411.html | title=Woody Allen nearly starred in Eyes Wide Shut instead of Tom Cruise, new book reveals | work=The Independent | date=August 11, 2020}}</ref> The project was revived in 1994 when Kubrick hired Frederic Raphael to work on the script, updating the setting from early 20th-century Vienna to late 20th-century New York City.<ref name="S&S">{{cite magazine|last=Raphael |first=Frederic |author-link=Frederic Raphael |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/features/frederic-raphael-reflects-writing-eyes-wide-shut-with-stanley-kubrick |title="This is confidential material. Where did you get it?" Frederic Raphael looks back at ''Eyes Wide Shut'' |date=November 22, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191114205728/https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/features/frederic-raphael-reflects-writing-eyes-wide-shut-with-stanley-kubrick |archive-date=November 14, 2019 |magazine=[[Sight & Sound]] |url-status=live}}</ref> Kubrick invited his friend [[Michael Herr]], who helped write ''[[Full Metal Jacket]]'', to make revisions, but Herr declined for fear he would be underpaid and have to commit to a long production.<ref name="vf" />