2001

Note from poster to Kubrick newsgroup: I found this on a bbs a while ago and I thought I'd pass it along to all of you Kubrick freaks out there. 02/23/89 Transcriber's note: For all you Clarke/Kubrick/2001 fans, I found the original paper copy of this screenplay a while back and felt compelled to transcribe it to disk and upload it to various bulletin boards for the enjoyment of all. The final movie deviates from this screenplay in a number of interesting ways. I've tried to maintain the format of the original document except the number of lines per page of the original. In order to reduce the length of this file I've used a bar of "------" to delimit the pages as there was a lot of whitespace per original screenplay page. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clark Hawk Films Ltd., c/o. M-G-M Studios, Boreham Wood, Herts. -------------- ---------------------------------------------------------- TITLEPART I AFRICA 3,000,000 YEARS AGO --------------------------------------------- --------------------------- A1 VIEWS OF AFRICAN DRYLANDS - DROUGHT The remorseless drought had lasted now for ten million years, and would not end for another million. The reign of the ter- rible lizards had long since passed, but here on the continent which would one day be known as Africa, the battle for survival had reached a new climax of ferocity, and the victor was not yet in sight.