Robert Mills <[log in to unmask]> corrects:

> Only a partial correction is required.
>
> During a TV interview, shown here in the UK about five years ago Clarke
> stated "The screenplay was written first and then during filming I started
> on the book. There was a crossover of ideas between the book and film
which
> resulted in changes to both the book and screenplay. Some of the scenes in
> the film were expanded in the book. The final scene in the film, 'the
> arrival of the star child', was one of those that was expanded in the book
> to improve understanding in what was happening."

According to http://kubrickfilms.warnerbros.com/video_detail/2001/

2001 began life as the short story The Sentinel, written by Arthur C. Clarke
in 1950.

Clarke and Kubrick, who had been introduced by a mutual friend, began
collaborating on a screenplay about man and extraterrestrials. Clarke
suggested they base it on that story, which detailed a surveying expedition
finding an alien artifact buried on the moon.

Clarke later wrote a novel based on the screenplay for 2001, which was
released in July 1968, three months after the film's debut.


Thanks, Robert!

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