dr Strangelove: Veep creators adapt the classic Stanley Kubrick film into a play

Armando Iannucci, creator of the HBO series Veep, adapts Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the bombshell.

Accordingly Weekly entertainment, Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove is adapted into a stage production by Iannucci to be staged in London’s West End. The production co-wrote Iannucci with Sean Foley, who previously directed stage productions of The Ladykillers, Ben Hur, and others.

“We’ve always been against letting anyone adapt Stanley’s work, and we never have. “It was so important to him that it didn’t change the way he ended it,” said Christiane Kubrick, wife of the late Stanley Kubrick BBC. “But we couldn’t resist approving this project: the time is right, the people making it are fantastic and Strangelove should be brought to a new and younger audience. I’m sure Stanley would have agreed.”

What happens in Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. strange love?

Originally released in 1964, the film Dr. Strangelove is directed by Kubrick, co-written and produced with Terry Southern and Peter George. The screenplay is loosely based on a 1958 novel by George called Red Alert.

In the film, a US Air Force general played by Sterling Hayden wakes up one morning and decides to launch a nuclear attack on the Soviet Army. He pulls plans into action with relative ease, and before anyone can even tell what’s going on, he authorizes a full-scale attack that seems irreversible. Senior US government officials then gather in a Pentagon war room and try to figure out how to handle the situation. However, the discussion usually ends in petty arguments and absurd revelations.

In addition to Hayden, the film stars Peter Sellers (in three different roles), George C. Scott, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens and James Early Jones. It won Best Picture at the Oscars.

The stage adaptation of “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb” will hit theaters in late 2024.