Kubrick's humour doesn't always detonate as it should in Armando Iannucci's version Even by Stanley Kubrick's standards, Dr Strangelove went through an extraordinary evolutionary process. After starting it off as a serious film about nuclear war based on the 1958 novel Two Hours to Doom, he decided to turn it into a comedy with the help of porn-obsessed satirist Terry Southern.
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:02PM on October 29, 2024