An Angry Stuntman Chased Kubrick off the Setĭuring production, Kubrick at first refused to let spacewalking stuntman Bill Weston wear a second cable for safety, although he was 30 feet above a hard concrete studio floor. (Credit: Mary Evans/MGM/Ronald Grant/Everett) 3.
Stanley decided to take his chances with the universe.” In the end, Mariner’s pictures showed a harsh, cratered, moon-like surface, which immediately tamped down the hope that intelligent life-or indeed, any life-might exist on that planet.Ī behind-the-scenes shot of Stanley Kubrick on set. “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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