Introduction:Artificial Intelligence: A.I. is a 2001 science fiction film
co-produced, written, and directed by Steven Spielberg. It was the last project
on which filmmaker Stanley Kubrick worked — he died before the film started
shooting, and Spielberg dedicated the film to him.A.I. was initially inspired by
a very short story by UK science-fiction writer Brian Aldiss, Super-Toys Last
All Summer Long. Kubrick and Aldiss spent years (on and off) attempting to
develop this piece into a full length film. Aldiss claims he never felt the
story could be successfully expanded into something bigger, as its focus was too
intimate to begin with, and this seems to have been the origin of his problems
with Spielberg, who was equally certain it could be fleshed out. Despite these
problems, Aldiss has claimed he and Kubrick had come up with three or four
“non-submersible units” (Kubrick-speak for the interesting sequences a film
should contain six of) by taking ideas from other stories of his. Kubrick seems
to have made some highly unreasonable demands on Aldiss [citation needed], and
there was also a dispute over money. Coupled with Kubrick’s insistence on taking
elements from “Pinocchio” this ended their relationship.Irish science fiction
novelist Bob Shaw was then brought on board for a few months, but he found
Kubrick too demanding. Kubrick turned to another UK science fiction notable, Ian
Watson, who did seem to work well with him, and the two produced the long
treatment (credited to Watson) that Spielberg used to write his screenplay. Both
British feminist writer, Sara Maitland, and Arthur C. Clarke added ideas to A.I.
A science fiction painter known as Fangorn (real name Chris Baker) was
commissioned to produce hundreds of pictures from ideas and descriptions given
to him by Kubrick which were used heavily by Spielberg, too. Spielberg then
bought the rights to Aldiss’ two brief sequels to “Supertoys” and ideas from
them appear in the movie.