Read this one a couple of times....
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Kubrick was developing but never started filming A.I. but instead gave the project to Spielberg. That being said, there was a 4+ hour long cut of Eyes Wide Shut that was screened for execs at Warner Bros. - and was definitely not the final cut that Kubrick had intended.
Shortly after his death Spielberg was brought in to retcon the project into a far less scandalous version of the movie that we would have seen. Spielberg ultimately gave the studio the version of the film that they wanted, this version is not what we would have seen had Kubrick not died.
There are only a handful of people on the planet that truly know what that that cut would have looked like. Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Steven Spielberg, those few studio execs, Kubrick’s wife, Kubrick’s longtime assistant/actor Leon Vitali. Kubrick worked so secretively that very few - or - no actors and crew had complete copies of the script. The scripts you can purchase on eBay today are translations from the movie that you can currently watch or own on DVD/Blu Ray. They don’t include the “sides” (aka: individual script pages for one actor only) these sides were shot with skeletal crews that ended up on the cutting room floor at the hands of Spielberg because they were way too scandalous to be shown without waking up the public and letting them in on the truly wicked Oligarch/Cabal rituals.
Here we are today, more aware, more awake. Had Kubrick lived, he still might not have been able to give us the cut of EWS that he had wanted... but it definitely wouldn’t have been the edit Spielberg (uncredited as editor) gave us.