Artificial Intelligence — From Stanley Kubrick to Steven Spielberg: The Vision Behind the Film, edited by Jan Harlan and Jane M Struthers, is a portfolio of pre-production material from Spielberg’s film AI. It includes several pages from Kubrick’s notebooks, though the bulk of the book is devoted to large reproductions of concept art by Chris Baker.
AI was originally conceived by Kubrick, who worked with Brian Aldiss on a treatment and screenplay based on Super-Toys Last All Summer Long, a short story by Aldiss. Kubrick subsequently collaborated with Bob Shaw, Ian Watson, and Sara Maitland on revised versions of the script, and production was scheduled to start in 1999 after the completion of Eyes Wide Shut.
After Kubrick’s death during the post-production of Eyes Wide Shut, Spielberg was invited to take over the project, and wrote a new screenplay based on Kubrick's notes. The film, directed by Spielberg, was released in 2001.
The book features a foreword by Spielberg that gives a brief summary of his friendship with Kubrick. (Spielberg was more forthcoming in an interview for the Channel 5 documentary Steven and Stanley.) There is an account of AI’s pre-production by Struthers, who works with the Kubrick Archive, though it glosses over Kubrick’s creative differences with his various script collaborators. (Aldiss and Maitland gave their sides of the story in the Channel 4 documentary The Last Movie.)
AI was originally conceived by Kubrick, who worked with Brian Aldiss on a treatment and screenplay based on Super-Toys Last All Summer Long, a short story by Aldiss. Kubrick subsequently collaborated with Bob Shaw, Ian Watson, and Sara Maitland on revised versions of the script, and production was scheduled to start in 1999 after the completion of Eyes Wide Shut.
After Kubrick’s death during the post-production of Eyes Wide Shut, Spielberg was invited to take over the project, and wrote a new screenplay based on Kubrick's notes. The film, directed by Spielberg, was released in 2001.
The book features a foreword by Spielberg that gives a brief summary of his friendship with Kubrick. (Spielberg was more forthcoming in an interview for the Channel 5 documentary Steven and Stanley.) There is an account of AI’s pre-production by Struthers, who works with the Kubrick Archive, though it glosses over Kubrick’s creative differences with his various script collaborators. (Aldiss and Maitland gave their sides of the story in the Channel 4 documentary The Last Movie.)
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