Creating “AI Artificial Intelligence” – Making-of documentary part 1/2

“AIArtificial Intelligence” is a 2001 science fiction film directed, co-produced and co-written by Steven Spielberg. Based on Brian Aldiss’ short story “Super-Toys Last All Summer Long”, the film stars Haley Joel Osment, Frances O’Connor, Jude Law, Sam Robards, Jake Thomas and William Hurt. Set sometime in the future, AI tells the story of David, a child-like android programmed with the unique ability to love. Development of AI originally began with Stanley Kubrick in the early 1970s. Kubrick hired a series of writers up until the mid-1990s, including Brian Aldiss, Bob Shaw, Ian Watson and Sara Maitland. The film languished in development hell for years because Kubrick felt computer-generated imagery was not advanced enough to create the David character, whom he believed no child actor would believably portray. In 1995 Kubrick handed AI to Steven Spielberg, but the film did not gain momentum until Kubrick’s death in 1999. Spielberg remained close to Watson’s film treatment for the screenplay, and replicated Kubrick’s secretive style of filmmaking. AI was greeted with mostly positive reviews from critics and became a moderate financial success. This film was dedicated to Kubrick’s memory with a small credit after the credits, saying “For Stanley Kubrick”. (source: wikipedia.org)