2001: A Space Odyssey | Adaptations
When Clarke first visited Kubrick in 1964 to work on a science fiction film, the director believed that they should together write a novel upon which it would be based; they would be forced to detail the background of the world that would be filmed. Both processes, novel-writing and filmmaking, occurred in tandem, so that the relation between novel and film is intricate. Some differences flowed from the nature of the media; since Kubrick's special-effects could not depict satisfactory Rings of Saturn, the film had to end its odyssey at Jupiter.
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