Ivory team but then strongly objected to the  making of the film, petitioning the studio to stop production. Gilot  had written her story in the book "Life with Picasso" in 1964, which  Picasso had tried to stop from being published; the filmmakers were  unable to acquire the rights. Instead they used  Arianna Huffington (qv)s "Picasso: Creator and Destroyer" as the  basis for Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (qv)s script.