Sale 2010 year we make contact Odyssey File Arthur C Clarke book Hyams Making Of

THE ODYSSEY FILE

- THE MAKING OF THE MOVIE- 

2010 : The Year We make Contact 

by Arthur C Clarke and director Peter Hyams

Rare Fab vintage book from 1985. 

Basically, the making of the sequel to 2001 A Space Odyssey.

A fascinating look at the making of the movie 2010 - The Year We Make Contact, but also the very early days of internet and email communication, as Director and Writer (one in the UK the other in

Sri Lanka!) communicated to get the job done.
The book itself is in excellent condition + still perfectly readable,but it has been read.

 Minor crease on rear/spine.

 Book includes 16 superb pages of colour photos.

All 133 pages are present, none missing, no tears.

Quick Review: Arthur C. Clarke explores the process of adapting one of his novels to film in "The Odyssey File". Rather than feature early treatments, script rewrites, and short stories/sequences, Clark presents this process as a dialogue between himself and director Peter Hyams. The most unique aspect was that conflicting schedules and geography required the two to use email in the early 1980s.
 

Clarke is magnanimous about any changes that Hyams wants, offering suggestions for ways to incorporate the changes and even the names of people on whom Hyams could call as technical advisers. Hyams, for his part, displays the nervousness of a man entrusted with adapting the sequel to one of the greatest films, regardless of genre, of the twentieth century. While the book does offer insight into the film-making process, it is not a complete "making of" or "behind the scenes" book, though Clarke explains that this was due to the need to get the book to press in time for the film's release.

The book's appendices feature an essay by Steven Jongeward, a production assistant on "2010", that describes the changes from book to film and how the change in medium necessitated Hyams' alterations. The second appendix describes the process for sending an email in 1983 using the technology of the time.
The book will likely not attract as wide an audience as Clarke's fiction, but will appeal to film scholars, devoted fans of Clarke, and those interested in the early days of the technology that became the Internet.

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