![]() ![]() After failed attempts to construct a robot that would satisfactorily take the place of the child actor, and although Kubrick had invested years of work in the project, for which he already had a script and hundreds of storyboards, he offered it to Spielberg, and proposed that he produce it while Spielberg directed it. And he was not willing to make the film elsewhere. For one, the story revolves around an artificial boy, and British law made it prohibitive to work for the prolonged periods of time with a child actor that Kubrick would have required. There were various impediments, though, that kept Kubrick from making this film. Clarke's “The Sentinel.” "Supertoys" is a story about artificial intelligence and, as in 2001, about how artificially intelligent machines and humans interact. The script was based on Brian Aldiss's short story "Supertoys Last All Summer Long," which Kubrick bought the rights to in 1983, three years after the release of The Shining, and 15 years after the release of the film it was thematically much closer to: 2001: A Space Odyssey, based on Arthur C. In the mid-1990s, Stanley Kubrick contacted Steven Spielberg with an idea for a project he had been working on for several years. ![]()
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