After completing "Doctor Strange Love", Stanley Kubrick became interested in outer space life, so he decided to shoot a meaningful science fiction film. At the suggestion of Columbia employee Roger Caras, Kubrick approached Arthur Clark to co-create the script. In the early stages of gestation, Kubrick and Clark dubbed the film "How the Solar System Was Won" (How the Solar System Was Won), which was exactly the same as the title of the 1962 epic film "Western Development", and intended to be the same. Also shoot in chapters. After much deliberation, Clark decided to adapt his short story "The Sentinel" (The Sentinel), published in 1950, as the starting point for the film's story. In addition, Kubrick and Clark once wanted to complete a novel that was not limited by the script and then adapt it. However, in actual operation, the script needs to be completed simultaneously with the novel. In the end, the novel was published shortly after the film was released, and the author signed it. Only Arthur Clarke.
Kubrick and Clark once asked astronomer Carl Sagan how to best portray aliens. Kubrick hoped that the actor would play the aliens for convenience, but Sagan believed that aliens and the earth People have no similarities. If humanoid aliens are created, then the basic elements of the film will have been misrepresented. He suggested that the film hint at extraterrestrial civilization in the plot instead of clearly depicting it. Sagan later attended the premiere. He was very pleased to see that he helped the film. He said that many Soviet scientists believed that "2001: A Space Odyssey" was the best American film they had ever seen.
On February 22, 1965, MGM announced that it was preparing a new science fiction film by Kubrick, whose title was tentatively scheduled to be "Journey Beyond the Stars". In a later interview, Kubrick compared the film to a "space voyage." In April, the film was officially named "2001 A Space Odyssey". Clark once published the book "The Lost Worlds of 2001", which tells the behind-the-scenes story of "2001: A Space Odyssey", revealing that when the film investor was finalized in early 1965, he and Kubrick had not yet determined that Bowman was traveling The storyline after "Stargate". According to the original plot design, all the astronauts of the spacecraft will survive. On October 3, 1965, Kubrick and Clark decided to make Bowman the only survivor and return to infancy. In addition, Computer Hal's original name is "Athena", which has a female voice and appearance. There are rumors that each letter in Hal's name "HAL" is a deliberate design before IBM, but Clark frankly admits that HAL is actually the abbreviation of "Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer" or "Heuristic ALgorithmic computer".
