

He revived the project in the 1990s when he hired writer Frederic Raphael to help him with the adaptation. Kubrick obtained the filming rights for Dream Story in the 1960s, considering it a perfect text for a film adaptation about sexual relations. He then embarks on a night-long adventure, during which he infiltrates a masked orgy of an unnamed secret society.

The plot centers on a doctor ( Tom Cruise) who is shocked when his wife ( Nicole Kidman) reveals that she had contemplated having an affair a year earlier. It is based on the 1926 novella Traumnovelle ( Dream Story) by Arthur Schnitzler, transferring the story's setting from early twentieth-century Vienna to 1990s New York City. Eyes Wide Shut is a 1999 erotic mystery psychological drama film directed, produced, and co-written by Stanley Kubrick.
