“How the underwriters managed to compute the premium, I can’t imagine,” Clarke wrote wonderingly, “but the figure they quoted was slightly astronomical and the project was dropped. Just before NASA’s Mariner 4 spacecraft passed Mars in July 1965, a worried Kubrick attempted to take out an insurance policy with Lloyd’s of London-in case the discovery of extraterrestrial life ruined the plot he was then working on with science-fiction writer Arthur C. VIDEO: Why is Kubrick’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ significant? Take a journey through the history of science fiction and examine some of the cultural influences behind Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 visionary film ‘2001: A Space Odyssey,’ including the Vietnam War, the civil-rights movement and space exploration.
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