![]() 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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