Originally published on http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/stanley-kubrick-original-to-become-film-trilogy-20150622 Written in 1956 following the release of Kubrick's allegorical war film “Fear and Desire,” "The Downslope" was a sweeping Civil War action-drama based on historical events. But Kubrick chose to direct instead his WW I anti-war Oscar-winner “Paths of Glory.