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  1. Box office. $146 million. 2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 epic science fiction film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick. The screenplay was written by Kubrick and science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke, and was inspired by Clarke's 1951 short story " The Sentinel " and other short stories by Clarke. Clarke also published a novelisation of ...

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  2. ISBN. 978-0-453-00269-1. Followed by. 2010: Odyssey Two. 2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. Clarke. It was developed concurrently with Stanley Kubrick 's film version and published after the release of the film. Clarke and Kubrick worked on the book together, but eventually only Clarke ended up as ...

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  4. 2001: A Space Odyssey. Museum replica model of the Discovery One, the main spaceship featured in 2001. The 1968 science fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey featured numerous fictional future technologies, which have proven prescient in light of subsequent developments around the world. Before the film's production began, director Stanley Kubrick ...

  5. The United States Spacecraft Discovery One is a fictional spaceship featured in the first two novels of the Space Odyssey series by Arthur C. Clarke and in the films 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) directed by Stanley Kubrick and 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984) directed by Peter Hyams. The ship is a nuclear-powered interplanetary spaceship ...

  6. Historical Context of 2001: A Space Odyssey. 2001: A Space Odyssey emerged at the height of the Space Race between the United States and U.S.S.R. This is reflected in the novel’s anxieties about nuclear war, as well as its enthusiasm about space-age technology; at the time of the novel’s writing, the United States had still not landed on ...

  7. Influence on film. The influence of 2001 on subsequent filmmakers is considerable.Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and others, including many special effects technicians, discuss the impact the film has had on them in a featurette titled Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001, included in the 2007 DVD release of the film.

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