Most of the diehard Kubrick fans already know about his 1975 lawsuit against the producers of “Space: 1999”…. But did you know that one of the reasons behind it was the possibility of a TV series based on 2001: A Space Odyssey?
And did you know that Kubrick tasked Arthur C. Clarke to produce ideas for a 2001 sequel as soon as 1975?
To what extent was the director involved in 2010, the sequel Clarke eventually published in 1982, and in the movie that MGM produced and released in 1984?
Well, I researched the Clarke and Kubrick archives and it took me years (thousands of letters) but you can now finally read all about it in my latest essay: Franchising a Classic: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, MGM and the Exploitation of ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’, recently published a few for the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and television.
The article is not in open access but the people at Taylor and Francis came up with a workaround: the following link opens a read-only version of the article, will work for the first 100 clicks and will expire in couple of months (but I can request for more.)
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https://www.tandfonline.com/share/SBWIXQGEY6ASP278H3BA?target=10.1080/01439685.2025.2542554
Your analysis of events following the "2001" film and book is fascinating. I knew virtually nothing of the convoluted route to "2010". Thank you.
RispondiEliminaThank you for reading it! The info is pretty much all new and comes from the Clarke archives.
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