The family of director Stanley Kubrick have called upon Hollywood producers to go forward with his last, unfinished film, “Aryan Papers”.

Kubrick’s brother-in-law, Jan Harlan, who served as the executive producer on several of his biggest films, said, “the time was right for Aryan Papers“, which is a story about a Jewish Polish woman and her nephew fleeing persecution during the Second World War.

Kubrick’s brilliant resume includes “2001: A Space Odyssey”, “The Shining”, “Full Metal Jacket” and “Dr. Strangelove”. “Aryan Papers” was due to begin shooting in the Czech Republic in the early 1990s, but Kubrick cancelled it after he found out Steven Spielberg’s Holocaust film “Schindler’s List” was due to be released.

Warner Bros. still own the rights to the film, which is based on the 1991 novel Wartime Lies by Louis Begley, and Harlan suggested that the studio should employ a leading director, such as Ang Lee (“Brokeback Mountain”) to bring Kubrick’s vision to the screen. Harlan also stated that he would happily become involved in the project again.

Stanley Kubrick died of a heart attack in 1999, just days after completing his final film, “Eyes Wide Shut”. Kubrick also wrote the screenplay for “Aryan Papers”.

“I regret it never got made but it was a decision made by Kubrick and Warner Bros, probably very wisely at the time,” said Harlan, the brother of Kubrick’s wife Christiane.

Harlan was speaking ahead of the opening of a news exhibition, called “Unfolding the Aryan Papers”, at the Edinburgh Festival. Warner Bros said it was unable to confirm if it had any plans to resurrect the film.

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