On 2012-07-28 14:52, Warp wrote:
> Also note that the book was written *after* the movie, in other words,
> the movie was original and not based on any book.

The book was *released* after the movie, because Kubrick felt its 
simultaneous release would detract from the profitability of the film.

Not sure where I read the last part of that, originally, but Wikipedia 
notes the following:

The collaborators originally planned to develop a novel first, free of 
the constraints of a normal script, and then to write the screenplay; 
they envisaged that the final writing credits would be "Screenplay by 
Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke, based on a novel by Arthur C. 
Clarke and Stanley Kubrick" to reflect their preeminence in their 
respective fields. In practice, however, the cinematic ideas required 
for the screenplay developed parallel to the novel, with 
cross-fertilization between the two.
...
In the end, the screenplay credits were shared while the novel, released 
shortly after the film, was attributed to Clarke alone, but Clarke wrote 
later that "the nearest approximation to the complicated truth" is that 
the screenplay should be credited to "Kubrick and Clarke" and the novel 
to "Clarke and Kubrick".

--
Tim Cook
http://empyrean.sjcook.com

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