{"id":81497,"date":"2026-09-02T10:53:52","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T02:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=81497"},"modified":"2026-09-02T10:53:52","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T02:53:52","slug":"stanley-kubrick-daughter-addresses-eyes-wide-shut-theories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=81497","title":{"rendered":"Stanley Kubrick Daughter Addresses Eyes Wide Shut Theories"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Vivian Kubrick, the daughter of the late director Stanley Kubrick, has addressed conspiracy theories about her father\u2019s final film, Eyes Wide Shut<\/u>, conspiracies spread, in part, a few years ago by podcaster Joe Rogan and his guest, filmmaker Roger Avary<\/u>. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou know, this is as good a time as any to finally address the missing 20 minutes from Eyes Wide Shut. It\u2019s a story that has been circulating for many years, so let me tell you what I actually know and don\u2019t know. For context, my father always had his outtakes incinerated once a film was finished, specifically to prevent the studio from later re-editing his work or creating alternative versions. There has been a lot of speculation that some 20 minutes were removed from Eyes Wide Shut after he died,\u201d Kubrick posted on X. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis will be very disappointing to many people, but I certainly did not hear anything about a missing 20 minutes at the time, nor have I heard anything since that would confirm such a section ever existed. I guess you could stop reading right here,\u201d Kubrick continued, clarifying she wasn\u2019t in \u201ca position to know everything that may have happened before or immediately after my father\u2019s death\u201d as she was in Los Angeles to score a movie at the time.<\/p>\n

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EYES WIDE SHUT: THE MISSING 20 MINUTES <\/p>\n

You know, this is as good a time as any to finally address the missing 20 minutes from Eyes Wide Shut. It\u2019s a story that has been circulating for many years, so let me tell you what I actually know and don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

For context, my father\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/hsgllDKJnV<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Vivian Kubrick (@ViKu1111) September 1, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cThe only alteration I heard about at the time was the use of CGI\u2014computer-generated figures\u2014to obscure some of the nudity in the orgy scene, which Warner Brothers wanted in order to secure an R rating for the film. But I did not hear that any shots or scenes were removed,\u201d Kubrick wrote. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhen my father died, Eyes Wide Shut had reached picture lock and was moving through the final stages of post-production. It had just been shown to the studio heads, I assume with a temporary music track, while the final sound mix and some of the music work were still to be completed. This was 1999, in the era of physical film distribution.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Kubrick explained, Eyes Was Shut was edited on Avid, a process that didn’t include any \u201cpermanent digital archive people imagine today.\u201d After further elaborating on the negative creation and editing process of the time, Kubrick added, \u201cI have no knowledge of whether any of the Avid editorial material from the production still exists.\u201d<\/p>\n

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University of the Arts London. They hold the official archive of my father\u2019s surviving papers, production materials and other records, spanning his entire career, including Eyes Wide Shut. But to my knowledge, there is no surviving cache of Avid rushes from the film.<\/p>\n

So\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/5Zr3hzSWkI<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Vivian Kubrick (@ViKu1111) September 1, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Kubrick suggested the University of the Arts London might know more as they \u201chold the official archive of my father\u2019s surviving papers, production materials and other records, spanning his entire career, including Eyes Wide Shut. But to my knowledge, there is no surviving cache of Avid rushes from the film.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is as far as I can honestly go. I never heard of a missing 20 minutes at the time, I have never subsequently seen or been shown any evidence that such a section existed, and I know of no surviving material that establishes that it did,\u201d Kubrick posted. <\/p>\n

\u201cI cannot tell you what may or may not have happened during the 30-some hours immediately after my father\u2019s death; I was not there. But unless substantive evidence emerges\u2014and I do not regard stories from certain people who, in my opinion, are inventing them after the fact as evidence; people often want to sensationalize their part in a story, if indeed they even had a part\u2014the story that 20 minutes were removed from Eyes Wide Shut after his death remains, to my mind, an actual conspiracy theory, not an established fact.\u201d<\/p>\n

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After mourning her father, Kubrick said she \u201cinvolved myself very closely in protecting my father\u2019s work and took that responsibility extremely seriously\u201d and said she would have found out about any missing footage from Eyes Wide Shut had it existed.<\/p>\n

Curiously, Kubrick ended her posts with a slew of hashtags about the Epstein Files and tagging podcasters Joe Rogan, Alex Jones and Julian Dorey. In his December 2024 podcast with Rogan, Avary not only claimed there was 20 minutes of missing footage from Eyes Wide Shut but that its original ending was altered by Warner Bros<\/u>. <\/p>\n

Sitting opposite Quentin Tarantino during the podcast, Avary claimed, citing “second hand” knowledge, the studio changed the original ending over Kubrick\u2019s objections \u2013 only for the filmmaker to die a few days later. <\/p>\n

Avary also claimed Eyes Wide Shut was originally meant to end with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman\u2019s characters giving their child away to a \u201cpedo cult,\u201d which suggested Stanley Kubrick, in 1999, may have somehow been aware of Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s sex trafficking crimes involving the rich and powerful years before they were publicly exposed.<\/p>\n