Dead screenwriters—they’re so hot right now. In a discovery serendipitously timed with the 40th anniversary screening of Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange at Cannes, the BBC reports that the original screenplay novelist Anthony Burgess drafted for the film (the one Kubrick famously rejected in favor of his own) has turned up in a vast archive of unpublished short stories—nearly 20 in all—and other previously unseen theater and film scripts, including one for a Napoleon biopic Kubrick was considering. According to Burgess’ biographer, Burgess’ screenplay for A Clockwork Orange is “quite a bit more violent” than the finished version, which was already so violent that Kubrick pulled it from theaters in 1971. How much more violent? “There's a scene early on where Alex opens his bedroom cupboard and it's full of drugs, hypodermic needles, and a child's skull." Oh, mid-century, so adorably quaint.