Who wrote the screenplay for Spartacus?

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American director Stanley Kubrick — Stanley Kubrick Stanley Kubrick during the filming of *Barry Lyndon* (1975).

The screenplay for the 1960 epic film Spartacus, which was directed by Stanley Kubrick, was written by Dalton Trumbo.1

Producer and star Kirk Douglas hired Trumbo, who had been blacklisted during the McCarthy era, to write the screenplay. By crediting Trumbo under his own name rather than a pseudonym, the film played a significant role in breaking the stigma that had victimized him and other blacklisted writers.1