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| Arthur C. Clarke |
2001:
A Space Odyssey (1968) is one of
the most representative science-fiction films in the world of cinema. Its
script, which took several years to develop, was elaborated jointly by Arthur
C. Clarke, a renowned science-fiction writer during the golden age of this
genre, and Stanley Kubrick, a famous film director. While he was working on the
script, Clarke wrote a book with the same title as the film, which was
published after the film’s release.
In 1972 Arthur C. Clarke published a book entitled The Lost Worlds of 2001, where he mixes reminiscences about the elaboration of the script with discarded chapters from the book. By reading this book, we can follow the process of the construction of the film by Clarke and Kubrick and the successive stages of the plot. I agree with them that the final script was much better than the intermediate versions. Reading this book has led me to the following two comments:
