Brad Bird Reveals An Early Draft Of 'Tomorrowland' Featured An Appearance By Stanley Kubrick

As our review of Brad Bird's "Tomorrowland" notes, part of the film's core is built upon "the aspirational dreams of the Edison, Tesla and Einstein-style inventors of the world." It's a spirit that's key to the upcoming movie, spinning a universal appeal out of the imagineering magic that Walt Disney conjured during his peak. In early versions of the movie, the plan was to show another one of cinema's greatest visionaries getting his own dose of inspiration.

In an interview with Disney Insider, Bird reveals that he had plans for a fictionalized Stanley Kubrick to appear in the kind of cameo that only the most diehard cinephiles would probably notice. "There was briefly a storyboarded moment where young Frank went to a part of the World’s Fair called 'To the Moon and Beyond.' It was a movie that was shot in 70 mm and projected in what they called Spacearium 360 by Cinerama," the director explained. "And he was there watching this,...