Stanley Kubrick had initially been planning to make a movie about Napoléon Bonaparte. As per his usual method, he and his team did several years of meticulous research into the subject and the era (Kubrick had reportedly read a few hundred books on Napoleon), so much that during the lengthy pre-production period, the similarly-themed Waterloo (1970) had also started development. Kubrick was forced to abandon his Napoleon movie when the studio chose to back out of the project, allegedly due to budget issues (contrary to popular belief, the commercial failure of Waterloo (1970) had nothing to do with this decision, as Kubrick and the studio had already parted ways even before Waterloo (1970) went into production). Kubrick decided to make Arancia meccanica (1971) instead, but continued his search for a story set in the eighteenth century afterwards, as it would allow him to use the copious period research done for his canceled Napoleon project. After considering and rejecting several of them, his eye finally fell on the story of Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray.

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