EXCLUSIVE: A new feature-length documentary exploring the making of Stanley Kubrick ’s seminal Vietnam War film Full Metal Jacket has completed filming in London, New York, and Los Angeles, with the film’s star, Matthew Modine , on board as a producer.
Written and directed by Stephen Rigg, Modern Art Masterpiece: The Untold Story Of Full Metal Jacket is shaped around 30+ new interviews with Kubrick collaborators, including Modine, Vincent D’Onofrio, and Arliss Howard, as well as previously unheard audio interviews with Kubrick and never-before-released audio of the director rehearsing with the film’s actors at Pinewood Studios in 1986. You can see some of the rare onset images from the doc below.
The documentary is being produced by Rigg (Kubrick’s Universe) and Hank Starrs