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From: kcarroll@utzoo.UUCP (Kieran A. Carroll)
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Subject: Re: faithful SF films
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Date: Mon, 23-Apr-84 14:48:56 EST
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   The first film that comes to mind when "sf films that are faithful
to their book versions" is mentioned is, of course,
"2001: A Space Odyssey", by Arthur C. Clarke/Stanley Kubrick.
In this case, the novel and the movie were made
simultaneously. The novel went through severlal re-writes,
in order to get a story that would work as a film.
There's at least one major discrepancy between the two, though.
In the book, the Discovery is sent to Iapetus, in the
Saturn syste,m. In the movie, it is sent to Jupiter
instead; Kubrick decided that animating Jupiter was hard
enough; animating Saturn would be even harder, as it'd
be like Jupiter, except with rings. So, Jupiter it was!

-Kieran A. Carroll
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