Name: Dr. Strangelove
Duration: 95 min
Cast: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens

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Dr. Strangelove Was Originally a Grim Thriller, Until Kubrick Did the Research

By Jeffrey Speicher

Published Dec 27, 2023

The Stanley Kubrick's war satire was originally written as a serious drama.

Stanley Kubrick initially set out to make a serious and grim film about the Cold War, but found the material outrageous and filled with buffoonery.
Many of Dr. Strangelove's characters are based on real people that Kubrick encountered while researching for the film.
The dialogue and eventualities of nuclear war depicted in Dr. Strangelove are based on actual documents and statistics drawn up by Herman Kahn, a real-life nuclear strategist.