In 1948 Arthur C. Clarke wrote "The Sentinel" for a British Broadcasting Corporation contest (which he did not win) and published it in 1951 as "Sentinel of Eternity" in the single issue of “10 Story Fantasy,” an American pulp magazine. In 1964 he met with director Stanley Kubrick, who wanted to make a film about "Man's relationship to the universe;" Clarke offered him six short stories, and by May Kubrick decided on “The Sentinel,” though Clarke’s "Encounter in the Dawn" was also an inspiration. The two spent the next two years expanding the short story into a novel and then a screenplay. By February 1965 Kubrick decided on “2001: A Space Odyssey” as the title. Clarke later said the short story bore “about as much relation to the movie as an acorn to the resultant full-grown oak.” The movie became the highest-grossing American film of 1968 ($16.4 million) and Kubrick was nominated for Academy Awards (Best Director and, with Clarke, Original Screenplay) and won one for Best Visual Effects (his only solo Oscar), and Anthony Masters was nominated for Best Art Direction. Kubrick did not envision a sequel to “2001” and ordered the destruction of all sets, props, miniatures, production blueprints, and prints of unused scenes to keep Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer from exploiting and recycling of his material in other productions. Clarke wrote three sequel novels, “2010: Odyssey Two” (1982), “2061: Odyssey Three” (1987), and “3001: The Final Odyssey,” and, with Kubrick’s consent, a 1984 film sequel, “2010,” was directed by Peter Hyams, who worked with Clarke via email on an almost daily basis. (Clarke himself made a cameo appearance as a man on a park bench.) The movie debuted at number 2 and earned just over $40 million in its original release.
In 1948 Arthur C. Clarke wrote "The Sentinel" for a British Broadcasting Corporation contest (which he did not win) and published it in 1951 as "Sentinel of Eternity" in the single issue of “10 Story Fantasy,” an American pulp magazine. In 1964 he met with director Stanley Kubrick, who wanted to make a film about "Man's relationship to the universe;" Clarke offered him six short stories, and by May Kubrick decided on “The Sentinel,” though Clarke’s "Encounter in the Dawn" was also an inspiration. The two spent the next two years expanding the short story into a novel and then a screenplay. By February 1965 Kubrick decided on “2001: A Space Odyssey” as the title. Clarke later said the short story bore “about as much relation to the movie as an acorn to the resultant full-grown oak.” The movie became the highest-grossing American film of 1968 ($16.4 million) and Kubrick was nominated for Academy Awards (Best Director and, with Clarke, Original Screenplay) and won one for Best Visual Effects (his only solo Oscar), and Anthony Masters was nominated for Best Art Direction. Kubrick did not envision a sequel to “2001” and ordered the destruction of all sets, props, miniatures, production blueprints, and prints of unused scenes to keep Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer from exploiting and recycling of his material in other productions. Clarke wrote three sequel novels, “2010: Odyssey Two” (1982), “2061: Odyssey Three” (1987), and “3001: The Final Odyssey,” and, with Kubrick’s consent, a 1984 film sequel, “2010,” was directed by Peter Hyams, who worked with Clarke via email on an almost daily basis. (Clarke himself made a cameo appearance as a man on a park bench.) The movie debuted at number 2 and earned just over $40 million in its original release.
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