ABSTRACT
Kubrick’s influence on the writers who worked in collaboration with him is exemplified in this essay which suggests that one of the purposes of studying adaptation is to allow, periodically, for a reassessment of the dominant assumptions concerning the relation between films and their non-filmic, largely literary, intertexts. The essay considers the impact of Peter George’s intense collaboration with Kubrick on Dr. Strangelove and the writer’s follow-up, post-holocaust novel, Commander-1, explicitly dedicated to Kubrick, and crafted specifically as an historical response to the rapidly evolving global nuclear threat.
