Hard to say, but I would intuitively say, no.
If he was killed, it wasn't just because of one movie, but his ongoing and progressing, perhaps growing inclination to tell people the truth, although 'he knows he can't', so plans for removing such a conduit for exposing the power elite must have been created a long time ago, so in a way, it was possibly just a matter of time.
Kubrick tried to tell people the truth about Apollo 11, Gemini and all that stuff as well with altering King's 'The Shining' (which is why King hated that movie so much - it didn't follow the book that well, because Kubrick had to destroy King's story to tell the truth about Apollo - I already explained this in another post, so I won't do it again here, but just watch 'Kubrick's Odyssey' and tell me it's all a coincidence). Heck, Kubrick even put a traffic accident that killed King's book's car to showcase that he can't follow the book's story faithfully, because he has to tell the world what NASA was scheming.
Of course people's eyes were widely shut, so no one saw this. It's cringy watching youtubers react to this movie.. no matter how many of them see the Apollo 11-shirt, the 'A11 work and no play', the indian rocket-looking art and so on, none of them understand, see or catch what Kubrick is trying to say.
So he had to make another movie, being more DIRECT this time, being more open and LITERAL about the truth. And yet, he knew people wouldn't see it, hence the name.. their eyes just remain widely shut. Eyes wide open would mean you can't be fooled anymore, you can see the truth (the ending of 'Fight Club' has a similar phrase), so eyes wide shut means the opposite, you're just another fool that doesn't understand what you are watching..
There are still people saying this is pure fiction and has as much to do with 'secret societies' (or the power elite) as Star Wars is all about robot oil change or whatnot (a ridiculous, wannabe-clever non-argument to shame anyone daring to open eyes).
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