Here's a
fascinating article about some of the alien designs that Stanley Kubrick rejected while shooting
2001: A Space Odyssey. It's full of surprising revelations, like the little factoid about Carl Sagan being the one who suggested not showing the aliens at all. Apparently there's some controversy about whether it was Sagan's suggestion or not, but Sagan and Arthur C. Clarke both thought it was, and that's good enough for me. (Also, Sagan and Kubrick apparently didn't get along well at all. What would you give to listen in on
those arguments?)
Some of these designs are kind of funky, but some of them look decades ahead of their time. The little beauty pictured above, for instance, could easily pass as a
Wayne Barlow design.
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