Spartacus - Dalton Trumbo's Notes

In his “Report on Spartacus,” Trumbo complained bitterly about the rewriting of many of his slave story scenes by persons unknown without his knowledge or consent. He felt these rewrites were responsible for the slow turn in the script from his concept of the Large Spartacus to the opposing concept of the Small Spartacus. Still blacklisted and working on the film in secret, he was unable to be present on the set or on location during the shooting of his scenes. Trumbo speculated that most of these rewrites had been done on the set at the last minute as part of a covert campaign by Stanley Kubrick to radically alter the nature of the script. --Dalton Trumbo vs. Stanley Kubrick: Their Debate Over The Political Meaning of Spartacus http://kubrickfilms.tripod.com/id44.html