Did the movie Trumbo change the director of Spartacus?
Shortly after Trumbo writes the script for Spartacus, he meets Otto Preminger, who says that he is "the director". It sounds like he is claiming to be the director of Spartacus, and this is why he has a copy of the brand-new script.
In real life, Spartacus was directed by Stanley Kubrick, who was never mentioned in Trumbo.
Was the movie intending to say that in the story of the movie, Otto Preminger directed Spartacus? If so, is there a known reason that they changed this particular detail from real life?
Or, was Otto only intending to mean that he was another director who wanted to work with Trumbo? I don't think it ever actually shows him on the set of Spartacus directing. But if this is the case, then how did he end up with a copy of the Spartacus script so quickly?
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Otto Preminger, in the movie, makes reference to Kirk Douglas' film Spartacus, but goes on to say that he's directing a different film called "Exodus". I think you may have misunderstood that part of the dialogue. I have a clip which doesn't include the entire conversation, but you can hear the part where he references Kirk Douglas and then goes on to say he has a new project. If he had been the Director of Spartacus, Trumbo would already have been familiar with Preminger and the conversation would have sounded much different. It appears as if Preminger is trying to pitch Trumbo on working with him, which he wouldn't have needed to do if they were already working together on Spartacus.
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He's simply saying that he's "Otto Preminger, the (famous) director". He's not claiming to be the director of Spartacus.
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