![]() ![]() Kubrick and Clarke, having seen MGM's big Cinerama production "How the West Was Won," privately titled their would-be semi-documentary "How the Solar System Was Won," and then "How the Universe Was Won," Benson writes. ![]() ![]() "2001" went through a run of working titles. The Apollo project director, Benson writes, solicited the author's ideas on what the space agency should do after a moon landing was accomplished.Ħ. Traveling from his home base of Ceylon/Sri Lanka, Clarke went to Washington in May of 1964 to meet with top NASA officials. The same year Kubrick began picking Clarke's scientifically inventive brain, so was NASA. Plus, Kubrick initially wanted the "alien object" - what became the monolith - to be clear, like a "transparent tetrahedron." Kubrick urged that it be made of Plexiglas, but the material didn't create the desired effect and the immense, expensive, clear monolith was trashed, replaced by a black monolith that reflected every smudge and flaw.ĥ. ![]()
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