Where do you live? moore muscle red lion Beyond the simple pleasure of imagining how these movies might have turned out, is the opportunity to speculate on the extent to which, had they been made, they might have affected the careers of those involved and, in turn, the history of cinema itself. Take Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon. This was set to be an enterprise of huge proportions. It would have occupied him for most of the early 1970s, meaning 1971's A Clockwork Orange, a film which exerted a powerful influence on the tenor of popular culture, might never have seen the light of day. If Steven Spielberg had not had a change of heart in 1979 and pressed on with his dark alien invasion movie Night Skies, we would have been denied E.T. (1982), a film which set the tone of most of his output during the following decade.