On March 31st of 1964, Stanley Kubrick, fresh from the success of his dark comedy Dr Strangelove or: How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb (1964), composed a letter to renowned astronomer and science fiction novelist Arthur C. Clarke, which contained a proposal for a joint effort in writing a screenplay that … Continue reading ‘However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.’: ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ →