Behold the first letter from Stanley Kubrick to science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke asking for his help penning a “really good science-fiction movie.” Five years later, the result was 2001 ...

Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke and the Making of a Masterpiece (Simon & Schuster, 512 pp., ★★★ out of four) effectively chronicles all of it, down to the smallest spaceship ...

Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece comes out from Simon & Schuster on April 3 and is available online or in stores for $30/£20.

April 25, 1971 letter from Stanley Kubrick to Arthur C. Clarke referring to civil unrest in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) as “trouble in paradise.” ...

A Space Odyssey set a new standard for visual effects and single-handedly reinvented the science fiction genre. At the same time, it forced the film industry to take sci-fi seriously, elevating its ...

HALF a century ago, Stanley Kubrick wrote to Arthur C. Clarke about a movie idea. Clarke was enthusiastic: "The 'really good' science-fiction movie is a great many years overdue." So began their ...

While some declare the film to be Kubrick’s greatest, it unmistakably bears the creative fingerprints of its director, the roots of the head-spinning narrative also involve Clarke who developed ...

Clarke is the novelist whose vision inspired Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece “2001: A Space Odyssey” and made it synonymous with our deepest fears and hopes for the future.

Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” had its world premiere April 2, 1968, at the Uptown Theater in Northwest Washington. People in the audience were “streaming out” before the film ...

When Stanley Kubrick and sci-fi specialist Arthur C. Clarke first conceived the idea of making a Cinerama film, neither had any idea that it would run into a project of several years.

2001: A Space Odyssey, written by Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke (based on Clarke’s short story The Sentinel) was released in 1968, and starred Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood, with Douglas Rain as ...

Throughout his long life, famed science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke corresponded with numerous people. This blog examine the correspondents that Clarke had with Stanley Kubrick, rocket ...